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We examine the link between the postponement of parenthood and fertility outcomes among highly educated women in the … USA born in 1920–1986, using data from the CPS June Supplement 1979–2016. We argue that the postponement–low fertility …, childlessness, and completed fertility. While the postponement trend, which began with the cohorts born in the 1940s, has continued …
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This paper studies the relation between childcare, fertility and female labour force participation. It presents a … simple model which analyses whether qualitatively better or cheaper (subsidised) childcare increases fertility and female …
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demographic research in Pakistan. Keeping this view in mind, this paper evaluates the fertility profile of the Arians, an …, revealing preference for son. Overall findings suggest that the fertility profile of Arians women was higher than their national … counterparts. Modeling fertility rates is concerned to model fertility curves. Statistical modeling on the three distributions of …
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sufficient iron supplementation respectively has been taken from Indian Demographic and Health Survey (IDHS) 2005-6. To estimate … targeted approach to enhance iron supplementation and sufficient iron supplementation in Indian women. The marginalized …
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Most of the developing economies including Pakistan are facing the problem of rapid population growth. All the efforts to control higher population growth become useless when the household desire larger number of children. In the study the determinants of ideal number of children revealed by the...
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Less than desirable indigenous birth rates in Western Europe have generated interest toward examining the question of natalism - an organised state initiative to manage and promote reproduction, child rearing, health, as well as related neo-traditional cultural values - from a comparative...
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This study investigates whether gender inequality in the division of housework and child care may be an obstacle to childbearing and relationship stability among different groups of British couples. Furthermore, it explores whether outsourcing of domestic labor ameliorates any negative effects...
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estimate a dynamic programming model of fertility decisions with microdata on fertility histories. We leverage the quasi … reduce fertility by allowing parents to efficiently reach their preferred sex mix, it could also increase it. This is because …
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, through interaction with child quantity-quality substitution, a decline in fertility. Using unique new data for 21 OECD … gender wage gap, we establish (1) a significant impact of technological progress on education (positive) and fertility … (negative); (2) that accelerating technological progress stimulated the fertility transition; and (3) that the baseline results …
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