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Fertility, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Demographic Dividend
Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Fink, Guenther; … - 2007
We estimate the effect of fertility on female labor force participation in a cross-country panel data set using … abortion legislation as an instrument for fertility. We find a large negative effect of the fertility rate on female labor … persistent over time giving an effect among older women. We present a simulation model of the effect of fertility reduction on …
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African demography
Guengant, Jean-Pierre; May, John F. - In: Global journal of emerging market economies 5 (2013) 3, pp. 215-267
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The demographic dividend in Sub-Saharan Africa : two issues that need more attention
May, John F.; Turbat, Vincent - In: Journal of demographic economics : JODE 83 (2017) 1, pp. 77-84
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Family matters : demographic change and social spending in Indonesia
Qibthiyyah, Riatu; Utomo, Ariane J. - In: Bulletin of Indonesian economic studies 52 (2016) 2, pp. 133-159
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Missing females : how many, where, when, causes and consequences
Llopis, Enrique - 2023
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Contribution of demography to economic growth
Sánchez-Romero, Miguel; Abio, Gemma; Patxot, Concepció; … - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 9 (2018) 1, pp. 27-64
From 1850 to 2000, in Western European countries life expectancy rose from 30-40 to 80 years and the average number of children per woman fell from 4 to 5 children to slightly more than one. To gauge the economic consequences of these demographic trends, we implement an overlapping generations...
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Dynamic demographics and economic growth in Vietnam
Nguyen Thi Minh - In: Journal of the Asia Pacific economy 14 (2009) 4, pp. 389-398
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Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2016
We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528105
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Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2016
We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532935
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Delayed marriage, contraceptive use, and breastfeeding : fertility patterns over time and wealth quintiles in sub-Saharan Africa
Finlay, Jocelyn E.; Mejía-Guevara, Iván; Akachi, Yoko - 2016
The rate of fertility decline has been slow in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using the Demographic and Health Surveys for … 21 SSA countries between 1990 and 2014, we examine the within-country fertility patterns by wealth, applying the … Bongaarts (2015) proximate determinants model. We find that overall, fertility has declined in SSA for the richest, but not for …
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