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of less prosperous ethnic minorities raises fertility among the unskilled minority recipients, lowers fertility among the …
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educational expenditures and decreases fertility among more affluent whites whose children flee. In contrast, among less …
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I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a lowfertility indigenous population result in …
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the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …
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This paper presents a quantitative analysis of the model developed in Galor and Moav, Natural Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth (2002), in which agents vary genetically in their preference for quality and quantity of children. The simulation produces a pattern of income and population...
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considers population growth rate and a directly related to fertility demographic indicator - total fertility rate. Using a panel … fertility. These findings suggest that the appreciation of the demographic effect of foreign aid can have important implications …
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multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility …
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In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unex- pected career interruptions which occur as a … job displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these e … that the reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises be- cause displaced …
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This article analyzes the relationship between abortion and female education. It provides new empirical evidence from sub-Saharan Africa to show that more liberal abortion policies are associated with a higher female secondary school enrollment. It is assumed in the model that easier access to...
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We investigate to what extent tolerance, as measured by attitudes toward different types of neighbors, affects economic growth. Data from the World Values Survey enable us to investigate tolerance-growth relationships for 54 countries. We provide estimates based on cross-sectional as well as...
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