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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 …

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Does hot weather affect human fertility? : hot weather can worsen reproductive health and decrease later birth rates

Barreca, Alan I. - 2017

Research finds that hot weather causes a fall in birth rates nine months later. Evidence suggests that this decline in births is due to hot weather harming reproductive health around the time of conception. Birth rates only partially rebound after the initial decline. Moreover, the rebound...

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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,...

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Did improvements in household technology cause the baby boom? : evidence from electrification, appliance diffusion, and the Amish

Bailey, Martha J.; Collins, William J. - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 3 (2011) 2, pp. 189-217

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Did improvements in household technology cause the baby boom? : evidence from electrification, appliance diffusion, and the AMISH

Bailey, Martha J.; Collins, William J. - 2009

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Did Improvements in Household Technology Cause the Baby Boom? Evidence from Electrification, Appliance Diffusion, and the Amish

Bailey, Martha J. - 2012

advancements in household technology from 1940 to 1960 account for this large increase in fertility. We present new empirical … evidence that is inconsistent with this claim. Rapid advances in household technology began long before 1940 while fertility … fertility rates from 1940 to 1960; and the correlation between children ever born (measured at ages 41 to 60) and access to …

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