Also to be presented at the World Demographic Association Conference on the Economic Effects of Low Fertility …Over the demographic transition, declining fertility leads to rising support ratios and consumption during the first … fertility falls to preserve the initial gains? Using a new cross-national data set, we estimate that a constant share of life …

How do high and low skilled migration affect fertility and human capital in migrants' origin countries? This question … drain induces parents to have more high and less low educated children. Under certain conditions fertility may either rise … found that increased high skilled emigration reduces fertility and fosters human capital accumulation, while low skilled …

This paper analyzes the effects of skilled migration and remittances on fertility decisions at origin. We develop an … overlapping generations model which accounts for endogenous fertility and education. Parents choose the number of children they … that, at origin, increased high skilled emigration reduces fertility and fosters human capital accumulation. …

Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …

We describe the use of machine learning methods in the analysis of spatial soil fertility, soil physical … tree output for use in a rule-based expert system, and incorporation of real-world limits on system recommendations …

the change in behavior of fertility rate at business cycle frequencies in the United States between the 1970s and 1990s … and shows how the cyclical and secular properties of fertility can be used to distinguish among several proposed theories … that account for the rise in labor force participation of married mothers. The model, in which households make fertility …