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We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528105
investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better …, male health improvements delay the transition and the take-off because ceteris paribus they raise fertility. According to …
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children against investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We … growth. By contrast, male health improvements delay the transition and take-off because ceteris paribus they raise fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011533051
investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better …, male health improvements delay the transition and the take-off because ceteris paribus they raise fertility. According to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294100
. Over the long run, reductions in child mortality rates are associated with lower demand for children and fertility rates … Universal Immunization Programme or UIP). We combine data on the district-wise rollout of UIP during 1985–1990 with fertility …
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. Over the long run, reductions in child mortality rates are associated with lower demand for children and fertility rates … Universal Immunization Programme or UIP). We combine data on the district-wise rollout of UIP during 1985–1990 with fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014078578
. Over the long run, reductions in child mortality rates are associated with lower demand for children and fertility rates … Universal Immunization Programme or UIP). We combine data on the district-wise rollout of UIP during 1985-1990 with fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013347140
High-income countries have generally experienced falling fertility in recent decades. In most of these countries, the … total fertility rate is now below the level that implies a stable population in the long run. This has led to concerns among … economists, policymakers, and the wider public about the economic consequences of low fertility and population decline. In this …
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We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559589
This paper investigates the economic returns to parental health. To account for potential endogeneity between parental health and child outcomes, we leverage longitudinal microdata from Indonesia to estimate individual fixed effects models. Our results show that the economic returns to parental...
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