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Do Family Caps Reduce Out-of-Wedlock Births? Evidence from Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, New Jersey and Virginia

Dyer, Wendy Tanisha; Fairlie, Robert W. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2003

Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data from 1989 to 1999, we examine the impact of family cap policies, which deny incremental welfare benefits, on out-of-wedlock birth rates. We use the first five states that were granted waivers from the Department of Health and Human Services to implement...

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The Fertility of the Irish in America in 1910

Guinnane, Timothy; Moehling, Carolyn; Grada, Cormac O - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2002

In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Ireland, fertility in … marriage remained stubbornly high into the twentieth century. Explanations of Ireland's late entry to the fertility transition … Irish outside of Ireland behaved the same way. This paper investigates these claims by examining the marital fertility of …

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Variables démographiques et éducation en Afrique ou le mirage des Objectifs du millénaire pour le développement

Hugon, Philippe - In: Mondes en développement n° 142 (2008) 2, pp. 83-96

The demographic challenges related on the growth and the change of the age structures, are such as few African countries will be able to achieve the goals of the development millenium of in 2015. The demographic variables play, beside the social, economic, political and cultural variables a...

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Uncertainty about children's survival and fertility: A test using indian microdata

Atella, Vincenzo; Rosati, Furio Camillo - In: Journal of Population Economics 13 (2000) 2, pp. 263-278

parental choices. This shows that realized or expected children's death is not the only link between fertility decision and …

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Genetics, family structure, and economic growth

Zak, Paul J. - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 12 (2002) 3, pp. 343-365

determines the long-run rate of output growth. Increased genetic diversity (or income inequality) is shown to raise the fertility …

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Rotten Parents.

Baland, J.M.; Robinson, J.A. - Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Sociales et de … - 1998

The autors study the implications of the trade-off between child quality and child quantity for the efficiency of the rate of population growth. They show that if quantity and quality are inversely related then, even in the case of full altruism within the family, population growth is...

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MALTHUS AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE WELFARE STATE: AN ESSAY ON THE SECOND INVISIBLE HAND.

BERNSTAM, M.S. - Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford … - 1988

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Binary Choice with Binary Endogenous Regressors in Panel Data: Estimating the Effect of Fertility on Female Labour Participation.

Carrasco, R. - Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) - 1998

to strictly exogenous. This model is applied to estimate a female participation equation with endogenous fertility and … exogenous fertility movements. The results indicate that assuming the exogeneity of fertility induces a downward bias in … absolute value in the estimated negative effect of fertility on participation, although the failure to account for unobserved …

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Contraceptive Use in Ghana. The Role of Service Availability, Quality and Price.

Olivier, R. - World Bank Group - 1995

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Women's Schooling, the Selectivity of Fertility, and Child Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Pitt, M. - World Bank Group - 1995

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