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Social security and endogenous demographic change: child support and retirement policies
Cipriani, Giam Pietro; Fioroni, Tamara - 2021
social security and endogenous retirement and fertility decisions. It demonstrates that neither fertility nor retirement … fertility and the elderly labor supply in the economy as a whole. It shows that governments can realize the first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405524
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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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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 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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Social Security and Endogenous Demographic Change : Child Support and Retirement Policies
Cipriani, Giam; Fioroni, Tamara - 2021
social security and endogenous retirement and fertility decisions. It demonstrates that neither fertility nor retirement … fertility and the elderly labor supply in the economy as a whole. It shows that governments can realize the first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251539
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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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Girls not brides : evolution of child marriage in Pakistan
Javed, Muhammad Rashid; Mughal, Mazhar - 2020
Child marriage is still widespread in countries across the Indian Subcontinent. The practice has important consequences for the health and well-being of the woman and the child. In this study, we examine the incidence of child marriage in Pakistan and the changes that have taken place over time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389440
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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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The cultural diffusion of the fertility transition : evidence from internal migration in 19th century France
Daudin, Guillaume; Franck, Raphaël; Rapoport, Hillel - 2016
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
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Maybe next month? : temperature shocks, climate change, and dynamic adjustments in birth rates
Barreca, Alan I.; Deschênes, Olivier; Guldi, Melanie - 2015
not a strictly binding constraint. To investigate whether such adjustments could apply to fertility, we estimate the … fertility cost of temperature shocks by shifting conception month. This dynamic adjustment helps explain the observed decline in … on our analysis of historical changes in the temperature-fertility relationship, we conclude air conditioning could be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386934