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The systematic literature search on the fertility rate was performed on articles from the Web of Science compiled by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) to provide major publication characteristics. All articles related to Fertility from year 1980 to 2011 were analyzed with the...
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I first document that the introduction of the One Child Policy dramatically increased sex selection in certain regions, and that the Chinese government responded to this by allowing parents who had a daughter as their first child to try for a second child. Next, I show that the increase in...
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Sunflower is a strategic crop in the agriculture of Ukraine as it is important for food and energy production. Recently the processing of secondary products, solving the issues of waste disposal and improving the environment have been paid much attention. This is an example of a cyclic economy,...
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traditional equilibrium, contraceptives are not used, fertility is high and education and growth are low. At the modern … equilibrium, contraceptives are used, fertility is low and further declining with increasing income, and education and growth are … provide more education for their children and leads to an earlier uptake of modern contraceptives and an earlier onset of the …
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differ between women with college and postgraduate education. Likewise, black-white fertility differentials among women with … college and post-graduate education, in particular among recent birth cohorts, have not yet been addressed in the literature … college and post-graduate education for birth cohorts 1931-1980. Our findings show a significant postponement of the first …
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This chapter explores the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. They are distinguished from the labor market outcomes of education in terms … of higher earnings and wage rates. The focus is on identifying causal effects of education and on mechanisms via which …
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This study investigates the general equilibrium effects of a fertility shock under different intergenerational transfer schemes. The effects on lifetime income and utility for different generations, as well as the effects on factor prices, are analyzed in a three-period overlapping generations...
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This paper develops a theory in which households prepare for future education by adjusting the number of children they …
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This article analyzes the negative side of involuntary integration in public education - its effect on whites. The … model shows that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private … prosperous parents multicultural integration in public education decreases their children's human capital levels. The analysis …
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