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population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate micro-founded fertility and schooling into … future economic growth - when fertility is going to be below replacement level in virtually all fully developed countries …
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traditional equilibrium, contraceptives are not used, fertility is high and education and growth are low. At the modern … equilibrium, contraceptives are used, fertility is low and further declining with increasing income, and education and growth are … high. The theory motivates a "wanted fertility reversal": At the traditional equilibrium, men prefer more children than …
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setup with micro-founded fertility and schooling behavior. We then show how a Beckerian child quality-quantity trade …-run prospects for future economic growth - when fertility is going to be below replacement level in virtually all developed …
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interaction with child quantity-quality substitution, a decline in fertility. Using unique new data for 21 OECD countries over … technological progress on investmentsin education and a strongly negative one on fertility. Using two-stage regressions, we assess … increase of enrollment in primary and secondary school isassociated with a decline of the general fertility rate by 3 to 4 …
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interaction with child quantity-quality substitution, a decline in fertility. Using unique new data for 21 OECD countries over the … technological progress on investments in education and a strongly negative one on fertility. Using two-stage regressions, we assess … increase of enrollment in primary and secondary school is associated with a decline of the general fertility rate by 3 to 4 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013328306
, through interaction with child quantity‐quality substitution, a decline in fertility. Using unique new data for 21 OECD … gender wage gap, we establish (1) a significant impact of technological progress on education (positive) and fertility … (negative); (2) that accelerating technological progress stimulated the fertility transition; and (3) that the baseline results …
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We hypothesize that the timing of the fertility transition is an important determinant of comparative physiological …, economically and physiologically. Empirically, the timing of the fertility transition is strongly correlated with average body size …
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In this paper we analyze the distribution of fertility rates across the world using parametric mixture models. We … demonstrate the existence of twin peaks and the division of the world's countries in two distinct components: a high-fertility … regime and a low fertility regime. Whereas the significance of twin peaks vanishes over time, the two fertility regimes …
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population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate micro-founded fertility and schooling into … future economic growth - when fertility is going to be below replacement level in virtually all fully developed countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352611
nutrition of their offspring. In this setting we demonstrate that relatively high metabolic costs of fertility, which may have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619268