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distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and …
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Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents’...
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Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010736772
on individual fertility behaviors in France. Indeed, the French laws make it very difficult to collect data on the … significantly influences fertility. To have been raised in a religious family and to be a believer do not matter either. The … estimated fertility of a woman assisting offices every week is 24% higher that the expected fertility of a woman who never …
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equilibrium model with endogenous fertility, endogenous labor supply and endogenous size of government spending. Family policies … explain differences in household decisions between countries. The solution shows a U-shaped relationship between fertility and … gender discrimination. An increase in the discrimination level implies a related decrease in fertility, women's participation …
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While demographers Lotka (1939) and Lopez (1961) proposed conditions on (exogenous) fertility and mortality laws under … issues of age structure stabilization and convergence, by considering a population whose fertility and mortality are … intergenerational trade affect fertility and longevity. It is shown that the age structure must converge asymptotically towards a stable …
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We explore the optimal fertility age-pattern in a four-period OLG economy with physical capital accumulation. For that ….s Serendipity Theorem still holds. Finally, we study the dynamics and social optimum of an economy with interior fertility rates … during the reproduction period. It is shown that various fertility age-patterns are compatible with the social optimum, as …
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examine how the cost structure of early and late children in terms of time and goods a¤ects the optimal fertility timing. Then …
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egalitarian optimum involves a higher capital and a lower fertility than the utilitarian optimum. Those inequalities hold also in …
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This paper re-examines the spaceship problem, i.e. the design of the optimal population under a fixed living space, by focusing on the dilemma between adding new beings and extending the life of existing beings. For that purpose, we characterize, under time-additive individual welfare depending...
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