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increase in fertility rates, particularly for second births among married and older women, providing suggestive evidence of an … increase in completed fertility. Second, we find an increase in overall female employment, likely due to the desire to qualify …
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. While there was no change in the overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in nonmarital … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. …
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cohabitation. While there was no change in overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in out …
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there was no change in the overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in nonmarital … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322784
With an under-developed financial market, borrowing from relatives becomes an important funding source in starting one's own business in China. This paper examines the positive effect of number of siblings on entrepreneurship, using the policy shock of China's One-Child Policy as the source of...
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cohabitation. While there was no change in overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in out …
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Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents' divorce have changed dramatically since the 1970s. Traditionally, one parent - usually the mother - was assigned sole custody of the child. Today, many divorced parents continue to share parental rights and...
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We analyze the tradeoff between child quantity and quality in developing countries by estimating the effect of family size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in the late 1990s, the mayor of Manila enacted a municipal...
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fertility rates and reducing output growth in the transitional dynamics. If human or physical stocks are sufficiently low, the … model shows that an economy can be caught in a fertility-caused poverty trap, while countries with more resources will …
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countries like Spain. At the same time fertility is relatively low in the most concerned countries whereas those in their … fertile phase experience high unemployment rates. Based on these facts we investigate how marriage and fertility decisions in … of the economic crisis on fatherhood. Over all countries we can observe that the fertility rate of employed women becomes …
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