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Population Growth and Carbon Emissions
Casey, Gregory P. - 2016
We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions …, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility … on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that changes in fertility patterns affect carbon emissions through three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978094
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Population and Regulation
Mulligan, Casey B.; Shleifer, Andrei - 2021
We present a model of efficient regulation along the lines of Demsetz (1967). In this model, setting up and running regulatory institutions takes a fixed cost, and therefore jurisdictions with larger populations affected by a given regulation are more likely to have them. Consistent with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222996
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Efficiency with Endogenous Population Growth
Golosov, Mikhail - 2006
who are not born. We show how these concepts relate to the notion of Pareto-efficiency when fertility is exogenous. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783878
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The Old Age Security Hypothesis and Population Growth
Willis, Robert J. - 2022
developing countries. This paper presents a theoretical model which integrates micro-level decision making about fertility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013309359
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The Relevance of Malthus for the Study of Mortality Today : Long-Run Influences on Health, Mortality, Labor Force Participation, and Population Growth
Fogel, Robert W. - 2021
This paper argues that the secular decline in mortality, which began during the eighteenth century, is still in progress and will probably continue for another century or more. The evolutionary perspective presented in this paper focuses not only on the environment, which from the standpoint of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245543
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Africa's Lagging Demographic Transition : Evidence from Exogenous Impacts of Malaria Ecology and Agricultural Technology
Conley, Dalton - 2014
Much of Africa has not yet gone through a quot;demographic transitionquot; to reduced mortality and fertility rates …. The fact that the continent's countries remain mired in a Malthusian crisis of high mortality, high fertility, and rapid …, econometric estimation is complicated by endogeneity among fertility and other variables of interest. We attempt to improve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012752005
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Who Owns Children and Does it Matter?
Schoonbroodt, Alice - 2010
failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention. The …) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents … transfer floor is binding, fertility choices are inefficient. We show how this inefficiency relates to dynamic inefficiency in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148673
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Do Financial Incentives Affect Fertility?
Cohen, Alma; Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Romanov, Dmitri - 2021
This paper investigates how fertility responds to changes in the price of a marginal child and in household income. We … construct a large, individual-level panel data set of married Israeli women during the period 1999-2005 that contains fertility … subsidy for infra-marginal children). We find a significant and positive price effect on fertility: the mean level of marginal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224426
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Local Instruments, Global Extrapolation : External Validity of the Labor Supply-Fertility Local Average Treatment Effect
Bisbee, James - 2015
We investigate whether local average treatment effects (LATE's) can be extrapolated to new settings. We extend the analysis and framework of Dehejia, Pop-Eleches, and Samii (2015), which examines the external validity of the Angrist-Evans (1998) reduced-form natural experiment of having two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013180
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Globalization, Gender, and the Family
Keller, Wolfgang - 2018
-earning women in their late 30s contribute strongly to the gender difference in fertility because switching to new comparable …-reaching implications for gender inequality, household specialization and family structure. Using population register data on all births … due to Chinese import competition lead to a move towards family, with higher rates of fertility, parental leave, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908156