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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 …
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, 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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This study presents a novel theory on the interaction of social norms, fertility, education, and their joint impact on … existence of two steady states. At the traditional steady state, the economy stagnates, fertility is high, education is minimal … population has abandoned traditional beliefs, modern contraceptives are used, fertility is low and education and economic growth …
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This study investigates the interaction of the use of modern contraceptives, fertility, education, and long-run growth … economy, in which modern contraceptives are not used and fertility is high, gradually converges towards a high growth regime … fertility transition and the convergence to steady growth. Utility enhancing sexual intercourse provides a “natural” explanation …
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