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Chapter 19. Technological Progress and Economic Transformation
Greenwood, Jeremy; Seshadri, Ananth - 2005
are: (i) the secular decline in fertility between 1800 and 1980, (ii) the decline in agricultural employment and the rise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023768
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Long-term effects of recession on parenthood gender inequality
Kim, Jinyoung; Kwak, Eunhye - 2023
This study identifies a new mechanism to account for the persistent gender differences in earnings after childbirth. Aside from women's voluntary wage cuts in pursuit of family-friendly job amenities, we claim that adverse labor market conditions at the time of childbearing widen the gender gap...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249934
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Does electrification spur the fertility transition? : evidence from Indonesia
Grimm, Michael; Sparrow, Robert; Tasciotti, Luca - 2014
We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian … results suggest that the subsequent effects on fertility account for about 18 to 24 percent of the overall decline in the … fertility rate, depending on the specification. A key channel through which electrification affects fertility is increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350358
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Risk Sharing, Inequality, and Fertility
Hosseini, Roozbeh - 2011
We use an extended Barro-Becker model of endogenous fertility, in which parents are heterogeneous in their labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134343
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Does Electrification Spur the Fertility Transition? Evidence from Indonesia
Grimm, Michael - 2014
We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian … results suggest that the subsequent effects on fertility account for about 18 to 24 percent of the overall decline in the … fertility rate, depending on the specification. A key channel through which electrification affects fertility is increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054587
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Two-stage least squares random forests with an application to Angrist and Evans (1998)
Biewen, Martin; Kugler, Philipp - 2020
We develop the case of two-stage least squares estimation (2SLS) in the general framework of Athey et al. (Generalized Random Forests, Annals of Statistics, Vol. 47, 2019) and provide a software implementation for R and C++. We use the method to revisit the classic application of instrumental...
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Stochastic population analysis : a functional data approach
Fang, Lei; Härdle, Wolfgang - 2015
Based on the Lee-Carter (LC) model, the benchmark in population forecasting, a variety of extensions and modifications are proposed in this paper. We investigate one of the extensions, the Hyndman-Ullah (HU) method and apply it to Asian demographic data sets: China, Japan and Taiwan. It combines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010477583
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Is the quantity-quality trade-off a trade-off for all, none, or some?
Millimet, Daniel L.; Wang, Le - 2009
short-run. -- Intrahousehold allocation ; health ; human capital ; fertility ; quantile treatment effects ; stochastic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003827226
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Between Constraints and Coercion : Marriage and Social Reproduction in Northern and Central Italy, 18th-19th Centuries
Derosas, Renzo - 2012
In this paper we review the main theories of household and marriage systems, highlighting their inability to account for the astonishing variety of family and marriage patterns that characterized modern Italy. We propose a new interpretative framework, where social reproduction is given pride of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109232
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Fertility After the Drought : Theory and Evidence from Madagascar
Dessy, Sylvain - 2019
such as droughts can lower the opportunity cost of having children, and raise fertility. Using longitudinal household data … from Madagascar, we estimate the causal effect of drought occurrences on fertility, and explore the nature of potential …. Analyzing the mechanism, we find that droughts have no effect on common underlying factors of high fertility such as marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891384