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The tradeoff between fertility and education : evidence from the Korean development path
Jun, Bogang; Lee, Joongho - 2014
and a fixed effect two-stage least squares model, this study exploits variations in fertility and in human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436205
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China's Demographic Transition : A Quantitative Analysis
Yin, Yongkun - 2021
China’s fertility decline was very fast. However, what has driven this decline is controversial. The common wisdom … attributes it to the strict population control policies. Yet, fertility might also decline because of the spectacular economic … fertility and education choices. The quantitative analysis shows that the population policies are critical for reducing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310464
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The stress cost of children
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Wooden, Mark - 2015
We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how demographic events affect perceived time and financial stress. Consistent with the view of measures of stress as proxies for the Lagrangean multipliers in models of household production,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472536
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Gender, time-use, and fertility recovery in industrialized countries
García-Manglano, Javier; Nollenberger, Natalia; … - 2014
This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed … decades of unprecedented fertility decline in the industrialized world, only a handful of countries in the West exhibit … replacement fertility rates - around two children per woman. Paradoxically, birth rates are substantially lower in countries in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434614
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The quantity-quality fertility-education trade-off : policies to reduce fertility in developing countries generally boost education levels, but only slightly
Li, Li; Liu, Haoming - 2022
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/10013254497
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R&D-based growth in the post-modern era
Strulik, Holger; Prettner, Klaus; Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, … - 2010
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/10008809945
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The quantity-quality fertility-education trade-off : policies to reduce fertility in developing countries generally boost education levels, but only slightly
Liu, Haoming - 2015
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
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Pensions and fertility : back to the roots ; the introduction of Bismarck's pension scheme and the European fertility decline
Fenge, Robert; Scheubel, Beatrice - 2013
Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered … which a public pension system depresses fertility. Our theoretical framework highlights that the effect of a public pension … system on fertility works via the impact of contributions in such a system on disposable income as well as via the impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792218
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Gary Becker on the quantity and quality of children
Doepke, Matthias - 2014
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
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R&D-based growth in the post-modern era
Strulik, Holger; Prettner, Klaus; Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, … - 2011 - This version: August 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675344