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Fertility among women on welfare : incidence and determinants

Rank, Mark R. - In: American sociological review : ASR ; official journal … 54 (1989) 2, pp. 296-304

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Fertility patterns of the transition onset : insights of the living standard model

Donaldson, Loraine - In: Journal of economic development 16 (1991) 2, pp. 129-144

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The micro-evidence for the Malthusian system : France, 1670-1840

Cummins, Neil - In: European economic review : EER 129 (2020), pp. 1-22

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COVID-19 in Latin America : a high toll on lives and livelihoods

Bakker, Bas B.; Gonçalves, Carlos Eduardo Soares - 2021

Latin America was hit hard by Covid-19, both in terms of lives and livelihoods. Early lockdowns in the second quarter of 2020 prevented an explosion of deaths at the time but did not stop the pandemic from later wreaking havoc in the region. This paper investigates the dynamics of pandemics in...

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Population, Technology, and Growth : from the Malthusian Regime to the Demographic Transition and Beyond

Galor, Oded; Weil, David N. - 2021

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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Population Policies, Fertility, Women's Human Capital, and Child Quality

Schultz, T. Paul - 2012

Population policies are defined here as voluntary programs which help people control their fertility and expect to … improve their lives. There are few studies of the long-run effects of policy-induced changes in fertility on the welfare of … contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider …

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Malthus in the Bedroom : Birth Spacing as a Preventive Check Mechanism in Pre-Modern England

Cinnirella, Francesco; Klemp, Marc; Weisdorf, Jacob Louis - 2021

We question the received wisdom that birth limitation was absent among historical populations before the fertility …-run effect of living standards on birth spacing in the three centuries preceding England’s fertility transition. While the effect …

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The Gift of the Dying : The Tragedy of AIDS and the Welfare of Future African Generations

Young, Alwyn - 2004

orphaned children. On the other hand, widespread community infection lowers fertility, both directly, through a reduction in … attainment, the fertility effect dominates. The AIDS epidemic, on net, enhances the future per capita consumption possibilities …

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Birth Satisfaction Units (BSU) : measuring cross-national differences in human well-being

Pritchett, Lant - 2010

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The Motherhood Penalty and Female Employment in Urban India

Das, Maitreyi Bordia - 2017

Since the 1990s, India has seen robust economic growth, rising wages, steady fertility decline, increased urbanization …

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