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Cordoba, Juan Carlos; Ripoll, Marla - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2012

The Barro-Becker model of fertility has three controversial predictions: (i) fertility and schooling are independent of … particular, a negative relationship between fertility and individual wage income can be obtained when the intertemporal …

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Barro-Becker with Credit Frictions

Cordoba, Juan Carlos; Ripoll, Marla - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2012

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ROMANIA’S DEMOGRAPHIC DECLINE – WHAT’S NEXT

Barbulescu, Razvan - In: Romanian Economic Business Review 7 (2012) 2, pp. 77-86

Just like many other European countries, Romania is facing a demographic downtrend that accentuates over time. Despite studies show that the world is getting overpopulated as the total number of inhabitants should rise from approximate 6.5 billion to over 9 billion, Romania’s problem is...

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The multidimensional relationship between early adult body weight and women’s childbearing experiences

Frisco, Michelle L.; Weden, Margaret M.; Lippert, Adam M.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 11, pp. 1703-1711

. Rather, the lifetime fertility consequences of early adult weight are malleable, involve social processes, and are dependent …

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The effect of education on fertility: Evidence from a compulsory schooling reform

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Maeder, Miriam - In: Labour Economics 25 (2013) C, pp. 35-48

This paper investigates the effect of education on fertility under inflexible labor market conditions. We exploit … complementary datasets, we examine different fertility outcomes over the life cycle. In contrast to evidence for other developed … countries, we find that increased education causally reduces completed fertility. This negative effect operates through a …

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On the Relationship Between Fertility and Wealth: Evidence from Widow Suicides (Satis) in Early Colonial India

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra; Green, Elliott - Centre for Globalisation Research (CGR), School of … - 2013

Evidence on the pre-modern relationship between wealth and fertility has so far almost entirely relied upon data from … robust positive relationship between income and fertility. …

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Geographical factors, Growth and Divergence

DAO, Nguyen Thang; DÁVILA, Julio - Development and Policies Research Center (Depocen) - 2013

This paper develops a unied growth model capturing issues of endogenous economic growth, fertility, and technological …

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Further evidence of community education effects on fertility in sub-Saharan Africa

Kravdal, Øystein - In: Demographic Research 27 (2012) 22, pp. 645-680

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Drop-out mayors and graduate farmers: Educational fertility differentials by occupational status and industry in six European countries

Barakat, Bilal; Durham, Rachel - In: Demographic Research 28 (2013) 42, pp. 1213-1262

We contribute to understanding the relationship of education to fertility by disentangling educational fertility … that can handle under-dispersion. Results show that education has a strong, direct, consistent association with fertility …, net of industry and occupation, and that fertility differences across countries primarily reflect compositional and …

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Societal foundations for explaining fertility: Gender equity

McDonald, Peter - In: Demographic Research 28 (2013) 34, pp. 981-994

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