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The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis
Doepke, Matthias; Hazan, Moshe; Maoz, Yishay D. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2008
II. We develop a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model with endogenous fertility and female labor … well as patterns for age-specific labor-force participation and fertility rates that are consistent with U.S data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005463546
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The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis
Doepke, Matthias; Hazan, Moshe; Maoz, Yishay David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
II. We develop a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model with endogenous fertility and female labor … well as patterns for age-specific laborforce participation and fertility rates that are consistent with U.S. data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763648
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The Baby Boom, Baby Busts, and Grandmothers
Orman, Cuneyt; Goksel, Turkmen; Gurdal, Mehmet Y - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
assistance. As such, availability of grandmothers affects the cost of having children, and hence fertility decisions of young … parents. In this paper, we develop a simple model to assess the fertility implications of the fluctuations in both output (as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836446
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The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis
Doepke, Matthias; Hazan, Moshe; Maoz, Yishay David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
develop a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model with endogenous fertility and female labor force participation … decisions. We use the model to assess the impact of the war on female labor supply and fertility in the decades following the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005775028
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The Baby Boom and World War II: The Role of Labor Market Experience
Doepke, Matthias; Hazan, Moshe; Maoz, Yishay - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006
been a marked trend towards lower fertility and higher female labor force participation. However, change did not occur in a … uniform fashion: during the post-war Baby Boom, fertility rates increased substantially, until the long-term downward trend …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051270
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A conversation with Richard Easterlin
Macunovich, Diane J. - In: Journal of Population Economics 10 (1997) 2, pp. 119-136
Fertility Revolution" and questions regarding the applicability of the theory of household choice in modernizing societies. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005395934
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Baby-Boom, Baby-Bust and the Great Depression
Bellou, Andriana; Cardia, Emanuela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
is still largely unclear what caused them. This paper presents a new unified explanation of the fertility Boom-Bust that … the entry of the D-cohort is associated with increased births in the 1950s, while its retirement turned the fertility Boom … completed fertility of all cohorts involved. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105406
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Gender Roles and Medical Progress
Albanesi, Stefania; Olivetti, Claudia - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, … - 2015
's labor force participation and fertility over this period. We also show that the diffusion of infant formula played an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185943
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The effects of female employment status on the presence and number of children
Kalwij, Adriaan S. - In: Journal of Population Economics 13 (2000) 2, pp. 221-239
The main concern of this paper is to analyze the effects of female employment status on the presence and number of children in households in the Netherlands. For this purpose a hurdle count data model is formulated and estimated by the generalized method of moments. The hurdle takes explicitly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005395951
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Parental leave benefit and differential fertility responses: Evidence from a German reform
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefit scheme on fertility. I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904396