Showing 1 - 10 of 81,168
Fertility is a main driver and outcome of long-term growth. Yet, fertility may not only interact with the level of … income but also with its volatility. In pre-modern economies where formal social security was largely absent, fertility … transition in the United States covering the period 1870 to 1930 and explore whether variation in fertility among American …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580904
Fertility is a main driver and outcome of long-term growth. Yet, fertility may not only interact with the level of … income but also with its volatility. In pre-modern economies where formal social security was largely absent, fertility … transition in the United States covering the period 1870 to 1930 and explore whether variation in fertility among American …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979443
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654922
19th century in the United States. We construct new measures of fertility changes and measures of railroad access at the … county level from 1850 - 1890. We are able to document market-access-induced changes in fertility due to both extensive … margins (shifts in occupations with different average fertility rates) and intensive margins (changes in fertility within each …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013173243
its total fertility rate. At the household level, it has also been well documented that children's education is negatively … policymakers and researchers evaluate the total benefit of family planning policies, both policies to lower fertility and policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430732
This paper reviews Gary Becker's contributions to the economic analysis of fertility, from his 1960 paper introducing … the quantity-quality tradeoff to later work linking the economics of fertility to the theory of economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434627
migration affected fertility by building a decennial bilateral migration matrix between French regions for 1861-1911. The … suggest the convergence towards low birth rates can be explained by the diffusion of low-fertility norms by migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476530
in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013499179
fertility, both desired and realized, as a central pathway through which the relationship has been historically theorized and … independently from fertility decline. Finally, we assess the state and quality of evidence of these relationships and propose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013500602
of the fertility transition. We also find suggestive evidence for a complementary role of access to health insurance … fertility transition has not much advanced in most countries in that region. We explore whether the lack of structural change … can explain this slow transition. For this end, we analyze the determinants of fertility transitions across the developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013173728