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A Unified Model of Cohort Mortality for Economic Analysis
Moreau, Flavien; Lleras-Muney, Adriana - 2021
We propose a dynamic production function of population health and mortality from birth onwards. Our parsimonious model … provides an excellent fit for the mortality and survival curves for both primate and human populations since 1816. The model … mortality gradients across socio-economic statuses, (ii) non-monotonic dynamic effects of in-utero shocks, (iii) persistent or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243051
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The Effects of Relaxing the One-Child Policy
Jia, Ning; Lugauer, Steven; Ni, Jinlan; Yin, Zhichao - 2021
This paper examines the early effects of dismantling the one-child (fertility) policy, which China relaxed in 2013 and eliminated prior to 2017. Birth rates, female labor force participation, and saving behavior have already changed. Between 2015 and 2017, the proportion of households with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013241694
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Women's Rights and the Patterns of Migration
Brock, Schylar - 2018
This article investigates women's economic, political, and social rights in both home and destination countries as potential push and pull factors of female migration. Using a bilateral framework including 104 origin countries and 28 destination countries for the years 1990 and 2000, we document...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012934448
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Gender-specific effects of import competition on individual fertility decisions
Piriu, Andreea A. - 2020
This paper studies the effects of import competition from China and Eastern Europe (EE) on the fertility decisions of individuals in German manufacturing. Through the lens of gender, the paper uniquely contributes to the literature by linking import competition to longitudinal individual data to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012313045
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Why the Marriage Squeeze Cannot Cause Dowry Inflation
Anderson, Siwan - 2001
It has been argued that rising dowry payments are caused by population growth. According to that explanation, termed the "marriage squeeze," a population increase leads to an excess supply of brides since men marry younger women. As a result, dowry payments rise in order to clear the marriage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014142803
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Economic foundations of contraceptive transitions : theories and a review of the evidence
Karra, Mahesh; Wilde, Joshua - 2023
We review the foundations of the economic development-contraception nexus, focusing on the pathways through which economic factors drive contraceptive adoption and change. We investigate the channels through which the relationship between economic development and contraceptive dynamics are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013500602
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Economic Foundations of Contraceptive Transitions : Theories and a Review of the Evidence
Karra, Mahesh; Wilde, Joshua - 2023
We review the foundations of the economic development-contraception nexus, focusing on the pathways through which economic factors drive contraceptive adoption and change. We investigate the channels through which the relationship between economic development and contraceptive dynamics are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262963
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Testing the Pareto Efficiency of Household Resource Allocations
Apps, Patricia F. - 2008
In a careful and thorough empirical study, Christopher Udry (1996) shows convincingly that, in a large sample of West African households, household resource allocations were not Pareto efficient. This paper argues that observation of the Pareto inefficiency of a household resource allocation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771691
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Holi crimes
Martínez, Claudia; Poblete-Cazenave, Rubén - 2024
highlighted as one crucial culprit. We study a public festivity in India, Holi (the festival of colors), where a common phrase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014541856
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Bayesian demographic modeling and forecasting : an application to U.S. mortality
Reichmuth, Wolfgang H. (contributor);  … - 2008
We present a new way to model age-specific demographic variables with the example of age-specific mortality in the U … jointly with the latent variables underlying mortality of all age classes. In contrast to previous models, a similar … forecasts for particular age classes. A structural analysis of the relationship between age-specific mortality and covariates is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003770767