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Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic … the analysis on two datasets: the American Community Survey and the Fertility Supplement of the Current Population Survey …
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Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic … the analysis on two datasets: the American Community Survey and the Fertility Supplement of the Current Population Survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428605
This paper investigates whether and how regional social contexts influence fertility decisions of women living in … western Germany during the 1980s and 1990s. It is argued that regional opportunity structures as well as local patterns of … for the transition to the first and second child. The empirical analysis provides no evidence that fertility differentials …
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-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and … administrative data for Germany for numerous birth cohorts across different regions. We use this model to analyze both the male …-female wage gap as it evolves from labor market entry onward and the effect of pro-fertility policies. We show that a substantial …
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This chapter examines the scope for mutually beneficial intergenerational cooperation, and looks at various attempts to theoretically explain the emergence of norms and institutions that facilitate this cooperation. The contributions reviewed come from branches of economics as far apart as...
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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 … educational expenditures and decreases fertility among more affluent whites whose children flee. In contrast, among less …
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data from Turkey and leveraging an education reform which increased mandatory schooling by three years, we find that the …
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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 … educational expenditures and decreases fertility among more affluent whites whose children flee. In contrast, among less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008626050
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During World War I (1914–1918) the birth rate in France fell by 50%. The corresponding deficit of births is estimated … at 1.4 million, while military losses are estimated at 1.4 million too. Thus, the fertility decline doubled the … demographic impact of the war. I construct a model of fertility choices where a household faces three shocks in a war: (i) an …
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