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fertility among minor women, aged 21 or younger, for whom access restrictions were most drastically lifted. We then evaluate how … examining its impact on female fertility control and human capital formation. We find that younger women who grew up in more …
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Urban heritage is often concentrated in conservation areas with a protected status. Previous research argues that urban …
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We analyze the determinants of female labor market participation for different age-groups in the European Union. We show that female participation is positively affected by tertiary education at any age. But upper secondary education increases participation only up to an age of 40 while after...
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We analyze the determinants of female labor market participation for different age-groups in the European Union. We show that female participation is positively affected by tertiary education at any age. But upper secondary education increases participation only up to an age of 40 while after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014201044
The old-age security motive for fertility postulates that people's needs for old-age support raise the demand for …-reform pensions and dfferences in exposure across cohorts, we show that pensions substantially reduce fertility, especially in late … suggest that improving social protection for the elderly could go a long way in fostering fertility decline in Sub …
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reason why certain women did not alter their fertility decisions during this time of economic uncertainty. We also show that …
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This article uses China's family planning policies to quantify and explain spillovers in fertility decisions. We test … whether ethnic minorities decreased their fertility in response to the policies, although only the majority ethnic group, the …-specific fertility levels to construct a measure of the negative shock to Han fertility. Combining this measure with variation in the …
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is particularly important. For example, our data show that stock-bond contagion is approximately as frequent as flight to …
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externalities. The character and timing of future shocks are unpredictable, but contagion in the propagation mechanisms should be …
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. We take the present status quo acts as a starting point. We describe the tension between the arguments in economic theory … on policy coordination and the way contagion can be avoided. In addition we assess the practical political implementation …
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