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Demographic Transitions Across Time and Space
Delventhal, Matt; Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Guner, … - 2023
The demographic transition --the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality … transitions. It also produces a correlation between the speeds of fertility transition and increases in schooling similar to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346455
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Did Improvements in Household Technology Cause the Baby Boom? Evidence from Electrification, Appliance Diffusion, and the Amish
Bailey, Martha J. - 2012
advancements in household technology from 1940 to 1960 account for this large increase in fertility. We present new empirical … evidence that is inconsistent with this claim. Rapid advances in household technology began long before 1940 while fertility … fertility rates from 1940 to 1960; and the correlation between children ever born (measured at ages 41 to 60) and access to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754941
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Gender Roles and Medical Progress
Albanesi, Stefania - 2010
The entry of married women into the labor force is one of the most notable economic phenomena of the twentieth century. We argue that medical progress played a critical role in this process. Improved maternal health alleviated the adverse effects of pregnancy and childbirth on women's ability to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757578
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The Cost of Low Fertility in Europe
Bloom, David E. - 2010
We analyze the effect of fertility on income per capita with a particular focus on the experience of Europe. For … European countries with below-replacement fertility, the cost of continued low fertility will only be observed in the long run …. We show that in the short run, a fall in the fertility rate will lower the youth dependency ratio and increase the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757668
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"Momma's Got the Pill" : How Anthony Comstock and Griswold V. Connecticut Shaped U.S. Childbearing
Bailey, Martha J. - 2010
The 1960s ushered in a new era in U.S. demographic history characterized by significantly lower fertility rates and … provides new evidence that it accelerated the post-1960 decline in marital fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757951
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Public Policies and Women's Employment after Childbearing
Han, WenJui - 2010
This paper examines how the public policy environment in the United States affects work by new mothers following childbirth. We examine four types of policies that vary across states and affect the budget constraint in different ways. The policy environment has important effects, particularly...
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The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation Across Immigrant Generations
Blau, Francine D. - 2010
Using 1995-2011 Current Population Survey and 1970-2000 Census data, we find that the fertility, education and labor … by the immigrant generation's levels of these variables, with the effect of the fertility and labor supply of women from … evidence that suggests our findings for fertility and labor supply are due to at least in part to intergenerational …
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Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility within Developed Nations
Sacerdote, Bruce - 2010
Only a few rich nations are currently at replacement levels of fertility and many are considerably below. We believe … that changes in the status of women are driving fertility change. At low levels of female status, women specialize in … household production and fertility is high. In an intermediate phase, women have increasing opportunities to earn a living …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759186
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Fertility, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Demographic Dividend
Bloom, David E. - 2010
We estimate the effect of fertility on female labor force participation in a cross-country panel data set using … abortion legislation as an instrument for fertility. We find a large negative effect of the fertility rate on female labor … persistent over time giving an effect among older women. We present a simulation model of the effect of fertility reduction on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759721
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Marriage, Motherhood, and Wages
Korenman, Sanders - 2010
We explore several problems in drawing causal inferences from cross-sectional relationships between marriage, motherhood, and wages. We find that heterogeneity leads to biased estimates of the quot;directquot; effects of marriage and motherhood on wages (i.e., effects net of experience and...
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