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in a lower completed fertility of the children’s family partly through inducing a higher female labor force participation … Borjas (1982) and Brenner and Kiefer (1981) in which completed fertility falls with the refugee experience shared with a …
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In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal … feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility … fertility of the childless and highly educated women. …
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demographic transformation in the past twenty years. On many dimensions of fertility and family formation, much of the region now … looks like Western Europe—below-replacement fertility rates, rising age at first marriage and first birth, and high and … increasing out-of-wedlock birthrates, characterize many countries formerly distinguished by replacement-level fertility and early …
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family sex composition as an instrument for fertility. The primary focus of this study is to investigate the regional …
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opportunity cost of motherhood connected to higher female labour participation is responsible for the fall in fertility. On the …
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Easterlin's relative income hypothesis projects for smaller cohorts increasing wages, increasing fertility and …
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This paper examines the economic rationale for concern about the falling rate of growth of Europe's population. It also assembles demographic and economic time-series data for the countries of Eastern and Western Europe during the postwar period. The consequences of demographic developments for...
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This paper develops a unified model of growth, population, and technological progress that is consistent with long-term historical evidence. The economy endogenously evolves through three phases. In the Malthusian regime, population growth is positively related to the level of income per capita....
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increasingly important, emerging as a widely used step on the path to marriage. Out-of-wedlock fertility has also risen, consistent … pill and women’s control over their own fertility; sharp changes in wage structure, including a rise in inequality and …
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This paper explores in some detail urban areas as the place of origin of fertility transition in sub-Saharan Africa … by examining recent data on levels and trends of fertility and patterns of fertility by age in a number of countries … contributing to the differentials in fertility. …
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