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A Note on the Changing Relationship Between Fertility and Female Employment Rates in Developed Countries.

Ahn, N.; Mira, P. - Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) - 1999

In this paper we look at a panel of OECD aggregate fertility and labor market data between 1970 and 1995 and we report some striking recent developments. Total Fertility Rates (TFR) were falling and Female Participation Rates were increasing, conforming to a well known long-run trend. Along the...

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Relative Income and Price of Time: Exploring their effcts on U.S. Fertility and Female Labor Force Participation, 1963-1993.

Macunovich, D.J. - Economics Department, Williams College - 1996

This paper attempts to review and synthesize the literature on the economics of fertility in order to develop a model which combines the "the price of time" and the "relative income" concepts underlying the two most well-known models.

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The Importance of Women's Education and Status for Fertility in Tanzania in the 1990s.

Kravdal, O. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 1998

The analysis is based on individual 1996 TDHS data combined with aggregate data from the 1988 census and the 1991/1992 TDHS. When various sources of spuriousness are taken into account, education is found to reduce fertility much less than suggested by univariate tabulations of total fertility rate.

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Who Takes Care of the Children? The Quantity-Quality Model Revisited.

Lundhlom, M.; Ohlsson, H. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998

We study the Becker and Lewis (1973) quality model of children adding an explicit child care time constraint for … parents. They can purchase day car e or take care of the children themselves. Our results are: (i) If there is a combination … of purchased and own care, the effect of income on fertility is ambiguous, even if quantity of children is a normal good …

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Family Structure, Fertility and Child Quality in Colombia.

Ribero, R. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2000

This paper analyzes how family structure and fertility alter children quality in Colombia. Reduced form models to … determine marital status of women and number of children ever born are estimated considering factors that affect women …'s bargaining powers inside the marriage. Tentative estimates of structural interdependence between these variables and children …

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The effects of Gender Control on Fertility and Children's Consumption.

Davis, J.B.; Zhang, J. - University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics - 1996

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effects of preference for children of particular gender on fertility and … children's welfare, with and without sex selection on "gender control". …

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Potential Access to Maternity and Parental Benefits in Canada: Implications of the Switch from UI to EI

Phipps, S.A. - Department of Economics, Dalhousie University - 1998

This paper uses micro data from the 1988/89/90 Labour Market Activities Survey to study some behavioural implications of the Canadian maternity/parental benefits system. We find, first, that fertility behaviour is not significantly influenced by the availability of benefits, and, second, that...

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Potential Access to Maternity and Parental Benefits in Canada: Implications of the Switch from UI to EI

Phipps, S.A. - 1998

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Demand for Children in Low Income Countries.

Shultz, T.P. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1994

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Fertility and Economic Development. Cross-Country Evidence Revisited.

Panopoulou, G.; Tsakloglou, P. - Department of International and European Economic … - 1997

The paper presents a theoretical background for the analysis of the relationship between fertility and a number of socio-economic factors associated with the process of economic development and analyses empirically this relationship within a cross-country framework.

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