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In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-generation models of … fertility choice were designed to account for two empirical regularities that, in the past, held both across countries and … across families in a given country: a negative relationship between income and fertility, and another negative relationship …
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importantly, we also show for the first time that selection into fertility is the main driver for the previously observed …
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To the extent that families' fertility decisions respond to economic factors, the price of housing is an important and … relatively neglected candidate for consideration in fertility decisions. In theory, the effect of changes in housing prices on … fertility. We follow non-moving women aged 18-40 (with their associated families) over time to ask whether changes in lagged …
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Persistent house price increases are a likely candidate for consideration in fertility decisions. Theoretically, higher … housing price data from the Canadian Real Estate Association to estimate the effect of housing price on fertility in a housing … changes in lagged housing price affect the marginal fertility of homeowner and renter women aged 18-45. They present results …
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Persistent house price increases are a likely candidate for consideration in fertility decisions. Theoretically, higher … housing price data from the Canadian Real Estate Association to estimate the effect of housing prices on fertility in a … whether changes in lagged housing price affect the marginal fertility of homeowner and renter women aged 18–45. They present …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064223
. The emphasis on women's employment as a determinant of low fertility has to be supplemented by an examination of the …
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We use duration models on a well-known historical dataset of more than 15,000 families and 60,000 births in England for the period 1540-1850 to show that the sampled families adjusted the timing of their births in accordance with the economic conditions as well as their stock of dependent...
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We use duration models on a well-known historical dataset of more than 15,000 families and 60,000 births in England for the period 1540–1850 to show that the sampled families adjusted the timing of their births in accordance with the economic conditions as well as their stock of dependent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977554
There is some evidence to support the view that Child Support (CS), despite low compliance rates and a strong interaction with the welfare system, has played a positive role in reducing child poverty among non-intact families. However, relatively little research has addressed the role of CS on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003784850
There is some evidence to support the view that Child Support (CS), despite low compliance rates and a strong interaction with the welfare system, has played a positive role in reducing child poverty among non-intact families. However, relatively little research has addressed the role of CS on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014207399