. Prior to 2001, each country hadsimilar policies, organisational structures for hospital care, and levelsof resources. After …

This report provides a spatial representation of hospital geography in Iowa and of the decisions of patients to … patronize hospitals. It begins with a brief analysis of hospital proximity and hospital proximity’s relationship to population … distributions and existing hospital capacity. This is followed with a discussion of hospital capacity as a proxy for the supply of …

There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household …

In this paper we analyze the distribution of fertility rates across theworld using parametric mixture models. We … demonstrate the existence of twinpeaks and the division of the world's countries in two distinct components: ahigh-fertility … regime and a low fertility regime. Whereas the signicance oftwin peaks vanishes over time, the two fertility regimes continue …

with micro-founded fertility and schoolingbehavior. We then show how a Beckerian child quality-quantity trade-o explainswhy …

We examine the long-run relationship between fertility, mortality, and incomeusing panel cointegration techniques and … for amajor part of the fertility change characterizing the demographic transition. The fertilityreduction triggered by …

The evidence strongly suggests a robust negative relationship between income and fertility, anda positive relationship … posi-tive longevity-income relationship for rich individuals, but also predict a positive fertility …

therise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger forthe decline in fertility and the …

II. We develop a quantitative dynamic general equilibriummodel with endogenous fertility and female labor …

explain the difference in fertility between these two groups using aswitching regression analysis, which enables us to …