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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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The paper 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. After establishing a normative framework, we examine the properties of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261395
data from Turkey and leveraging an education reform which increased mandatory schooling by three years, we find that the …
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are: (i) the secular decline in fertility between 1800 and 1980, (ii) the decline in agricultural employment and the rise …
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I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a lowfertility indigenous population result in …
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multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility …This article analyzes the consequences of integration in public education. I show that the flight from the integrated … among more affluent parents whose children flee. In contrast, among less prosperous parents, integration in public education …
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the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …
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-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and …-female wage gap as it evolves from labor market entry onward and the effect of pro-fertility policies. We show that a substantial … portion of the gender wage gap is explainable by realized and expected fertility and that the long-run effect of policies …
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the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …
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the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility … and the transition to modern growth -- Demographic transition ; Gender Gap ; Human capital ; Fertility ; Mortality …
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