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- both own education and that of parents - in delaying marriage and fertility of young women. …
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Low fertility rates are a cause of social concern in many developed countries, with growing youth unemployment often … important insights into the type of policies that would be most effective in promoting fertility. …
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The big five personality traits develop over a person's lifetime. There is some suggestive evidence that major life events - such as getting married, being fired from a job, and having children - affect personality. However, these associations cannot be interpreted as causal. This is the first...
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We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … forms of health on other life dynamics, with better mental health having stronger impacts on marriage and fertility outcomes … employment have long-lasting eects on life decisions, life satisfaction, and income due to their interaction with fertility …
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This paper investigates social mobility in Bolivia and discusses its implications for poverty reduction and long-run growth. Regressions based on household survey data show that social mobility is very low in Bolivia, even by Latin American standards. This is mainly caused by an inadequate...
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This paper investigates social mobility in Bolivia and discusses its implications for poverty reduction and long-run growth. Regressions based on household survey data show that social mobility is very low in Bolivia, even by Latin American standards. This is mainly caused by an inadequate...
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This paper investigates the effect of earnings and employment opportunities on pre-marital fertility. Using data from a … sample of British women born in 1970, we estimate an independent competing risks hazard model of fertility and cohabitation … decisions. Our results show that individual earnings opportunities are negatively related to pre-marital fertility but do not …
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The extensive research on the impact of educational attainment on fertility behavior has been expanded by a new …
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The extensive research on the impact of educational attainment on fertility behavior has been expanded by a new … of education ; level of education ; fertility ; childlessness ; Western Germany …
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earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …
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