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What accounts for the emergence of Malthusian fertility in transition economies?
Micevska, Maja B. (contributor); Zak, Paul J. (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
corresponding drop in fertility. This is contrary to the robust negative relationship between income and fertility that has been … extensively documented. This paper presents a theoretical model that explains the positive relationship between fertility and … income. The model predicts that: i) the perceived level of subsistence consumption fundamentally determines whether fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001768396
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Happy people have children : choice and self-selection into parenthood
Cetre, Sophie; Clark, Andrew E.; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2016
There is mixed evidence in the existing literature on whether children are associated with greater subjective well-being, with the correlation depending on which countries and populations are considered. We here provide a systematic analysis of this question based on three different datasets:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457380
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Income effects on children's life satisfaction : longitudinal evidence for England
Knies, Gundi - 2017
Using longitudinal data for children aged 10-15 years living in England in 2009-2014 we test the hypothesis that income matters for children’s life satisfaction. The results suggest that children are more satisfied with life the more income their family has. Income effects are larger the less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621542
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Intergenerational income mobility and income taxation
Kurnaz, Musab; Soytas, Mehmet A. - 2019
the increase in the fertility rate (quantity) and the decrease in the educational outcome of children (quality), is highly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145460
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Dynamics and stagnation in the Malthusian epoch : theory and evidence
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003785842
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Dynamics and stagnation in the Malthusian epoch : theory and evidence
Ashraf, Quamrul (contributor); Galor, Oded (contributor) - 2008
This paper empirically tests the predictions of the Malthusian theory with respect to both population dynamics and income per capita stagnation in the pre-Industrial Revolution era. The theory suggests that improvements in technology during this period generated only temporary gains in income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809396
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Dynamics and stagnation in the Malthusian epoch
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2011
"This paper examines the central hypothesis of the influential Malthusian theory, according to which improvements in the technological environment during the pre-industrial era had generated only temporary gains in income per capita, eventually leading to a larger, but not significantly richer,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009129770
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Survival of the richest : the Malthusian mechanism in pre-industrial England
Clark, Gregory (contributor); Hamilton, Gillian (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003346793
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Natives and migrants in home production : the case of Germany
Forlani, Emanuele; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Mendolicchio, … - 2016
, on fertility decisions and labour supply of native females in Germany. Specifcally, we consider individual data of native …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544260
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Fertility effects of child benefits
Riphahn, Regina T.; Wiynck, Frederik - 2016
benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the exact amount of the increase varied … substantially by household income and sibship size. We use these heterogeneities to identify their causal effects on fertility in a … positive fertility effects for higher as opposed to lower income couples deciding on a second birth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525918