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exploit sex composition of children as an exogenous source of variation in family size to account for endogeneity of fertility … with one and more, two and more, and three and more children, I find no significant effect of fertility on female labor …
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incentives for fertility should account for spillover effects on existing children. …
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Aiming to boost fertility rates, in 2007 the Spanish government implemented a universal €2500 baby bonus paid to …
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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 …
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and innovation) and therefore, long- run economic growth of an economy by working through the influence of fertility rates … simultaneous decline in fertility rate reduces total factor productivity growth by contracting the stock of human capital. The … fertility. Therefore, the economy grows at the rate of population growth at the macro level under the two regimes. Also, it is …
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Fertility in the United States rose from a low of 2.27 children for women born in 1908 to a peak of 3.21 children for …-twentieth century baby boom and generated a rise in women’s human capital, ultimately leading to a decline in desired fertility for … associated with a rise in fertility for women born between 1921 and 1940, with a rise in college and high school graduation rates …
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This study was prepared by Sven Neelsen while he was working with the ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in December 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2012. The study investigates long-run effects of...
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The economic and psychological literatures have demonstrated that early investments (private and public) in children can significantly increase cognitive outcomes in the short and long term and contribute to success later in life. One of the most important of these inputs is maternal time....
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