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Fertility transitions in developing countries : convergence, timing, and causes
Papagni, Erasmo - 2018
This paper studies the dynamics of fertility in 180 countries in the period 1950ñ 2015 and investigates the … determinants of the onset of fertility transitions. The application of Phillips and Sulís (2007) test to fertility rates provides … those not transitioning. The estimation of the year of onset of the fertility transition is followed by an econometric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130580
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The gender gap in education investment and the demographic transition in developing countries : theory and evidence
Nguyen Thang Dao; Dávila, Julio; Greulich, Angela - 2019
We propose a unified growth model linking technology, education investment across genders, and fertility to explain …, accelerating technological progress. This reinforcing loop results in the transition to a new fertility regime and accelerated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137079
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Gender gap, capital accumulation and the demographic transition
Guo, Kaiming; Yu, Jingwen - In: The economics of transition 25 (2017) 3, pp. 553-572
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Explaining declines in US rural mortality, 1910-1933 : the role of county health departments
Hoehn Velasco, Lauren - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011590849
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Demographic transition and political stability : does corruption matter?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Witthuhn, Stefan - 2014
A demographic transition resulting from an increase in the size of the young working age population can be a blessing or a curse for economic performance. We focus on the political stability effects of a larger youth population and hypothesize that corruption matters in this nexus. Using panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464999
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Less is More? : the child quantity-quality trade-off in early 20th century England and Wales'
Fernihough, Alan - 2017
examines the relationship connecting fertility and child quality for individual families in England and Wales at the start of … probability of leaving school. To account for the endogenous nature of fertility decisions, I use the sex composition of the first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725190
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Endogenous fertility with a sibship size effect
Brezis, Elise S.; Dos Santos Ferreira, Rodolphe - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 20 (2016) 8, pp. 2046-2066
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Demographic transition and political stability : does corruption matter?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Witthuhn, Stefan - 2014 - This version: November 27, 2014
A demographic transition resulting from an increase in the size of the young working age population can be a blessing or a curse for economic performance. We focus on the political stability effects of a larger youth population and hypothesize that corruption matters in this nexus. Using panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437952
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The empirics of economic growth over time and across nations : a unified growth perspective
Cervellati, Matteo; Meyerheim, Gerrit; Sunde, Uwe - 2022
This research develops an expanded unified growth theory that incorporates the endogenous accumulation of physical capital, population, human capital, and technology. The model incorporates a complementarity between physical capital and human capital and can be extended to a multi-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014458861
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Son preference and the demographic transition
Aksan, Anna-Maria - In: Review of development economics : an essential resource … 26 (2022) 1, pp. 32-56
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