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How Japan and the Us Can Reduce the Stress of Aging
Goldin, Claudia - 2016
dependency ratio (DR), is currently about 0.64. In the immediate pre-WWII era it was even higher because Japan's total fertility ….44 in 1990. But further declining fertility and rising life expectancy caused the DR to shoot up after 1995.In this short … its DR because its fertility rate is low, its people are long lived and it has little immigration. Fertility is the …
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Why Has Economic Growth Slowed When Innovation Appears to Be Accelerating?
Gordon, Robert J. - 2018
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Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the Twentieth Century : A Long-Term Comparison
Costa, Dora L. - 2021
Differentials between blacks and whites in birth weights and prematurity and stillbirth rates have been persistent over the entire twentieth century. Differences in prematurity rates explain a large proportion of the black-white gap in birth weights both among babies attended by Johns Hopkins...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239160
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The Demand for Sons : Evidence from Divorce, Fertility, and Shotgun Marriage
Dahl, Gordon B.; Moretti, Enrico - 2021
marriage when the sex of the child is known before birth, and fertility stopping rules. We document that parents with girls are … likely to be married at delivery. When we turn to fertility, we find that in families with at least two children, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248717
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Spatial variation of Sub-national fertility trends in Austria, Germany and Switzerland
Basten, Stuart; Huinink, Johannes; Klüsener, Sebastian - In: Comparative population studies : CPoS ; the … 36 (2011) 2/3, pp. 573-614
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009632523
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Fertility in Austria, Germany and Switzerland : is there a common pattern?
Sobotka, Tomáš - In: Comparative population studies : CPoS ; the … 36 (2011) 2/3, pp. 263-304
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Socioeconomic differences in the unemployment and fertility nexus : a comparison of Denmark and Germany
Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Andersson, Gunnar - 2013
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Postponement of Maternity and the Duration of Time Spent at Home after First Birth : Panel Data Analyses Comparing Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Sweden
Gustafsson, Siv - 2002
This paper analyses the postponement of first births of the 1990s compared to the 1980s, using panel data from four countries, namely, Germany (GSOEP), Great Britain (BHPS), the Netherlands (OSA) and Sweden (HUS). We find substantial postponement of maternity in all four countries for all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446744
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The Demand for Sons : Evidence from Divorce, Fertility, and Shotgun Marriage
Dahl, Gordon B. - 2004
marriage when the sex of the child is known before birth, and fertility stopping rules. We document that parents with girls are … likely to be married at delivery. When we turn to fertility, we find that in families with at least two children, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468412
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Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the Twentieth Century : A Long-Term Comparison
Costa, Dora L. - 2003
Differentials between blacks and whites in birth weights and prematurity and stillbirth rates have been persistent over the entire twentieth century. Differences in prematurity rates explain a large proportion of the black-white gap in birth weights both among babies attended by Johns Hopkins...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469106