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Grandpa and the Snapper: the Wellbeing of the Elderly who Live with Children
Deaton, Angus; Stone, Arthur A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
fertility rates are higher, the elderly do not appear to have lower life evaluations when they live with children; such living …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969330
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New Evidence on the Causal Link Between the Quantity and Quality of Children
Angrist, Joshua; Lavy, Victor Chaim; Schlosser, Analia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
look at the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720737
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Contraception as Development? New Evidence from Family Planning in Colombia
Miller, Grant - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
countries reduce fertility or improve socio-economic outcomes. Despite suggestive associations, disagreement persists because … independently later in life. Although family planning explains only about 10% of Colombia%u2019s fertility decline, it appears to … have reduced the otherwise substantial costs of fertility control and may be among the most effective development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774729
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The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing Before Roe v Wade
Lang, Kevin; Weinstein, Russell - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Using data from three cycles of the National Survey of Family Growth, we investigate whether there were adverse consequences of teenage childbearing in the 1950s and 1960s, when most abortions were illegal, and access to the pill was limited. We find negative effects of teen motherhood on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010709587
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Evolutionary and wealth flows theories of fertility : empirical tests and new models
Kaplan, Hillard S. - In: Population and development review 20 (1994) 4, pp. 753-791
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Inverted Easterlin fertility cycles and Kornai's "soft" budget constraint
Carlson, Elwood - In: Population and development review 18 (1992) 4, pp. 669-688
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Age at first birth and later health in Western and Eastern Europe
Grundy, Emily; Foverskov, Else - In: Population and development review 42 (2016) 2, pp. 245-269
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The formation and realization of fertility goals among a US cohort in the post-Recession years
Guzzo, Karen Benjamin - In: Population and development review 48 (2022) 4, pp. 991-1026
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014303842
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Dynamics of union dissolution in sub-Saharan Africa
John, Ben Malinga; Nitsche, Natalie - In: Population and development review 48 (2022) 4, pp. 1163-1201
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014303861
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Institutional Adaptability and Economic Development: The Property Rights Revolution in Britain, 1700 to 1830
Richardson, Gary; Bogart, Dan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Adaptable property-rights institutions, we argue, foster economic development. The British example illustrates this point. Around 1700, Parliament established a forum where rights to land and resources could be reorganized. This venue enabled landholders and communities to take advantage of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720679