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This paper develops a theory in which households prepare for future education by adjusting the number of children they intend to raise. Income inequality lowers output per worker only if the inequality is attributed in some part to unexpected disturbances after childbirth
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become mothers and of women eventually attaining a completed fertility of zero. We document that these groups' satisfaction …
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The issue of motherhood penalty, i.e., the number of children in a household negatively affects the mother's LFP but has no impact on the father's LFP, has been widely discussed in previous literature. However, most literature mainly discusses the motherhood penalty among nuclear families or...
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Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the …
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administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0 7.8% of the overall fertility decline until …
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The paper is devoted to the fertility intentions of the migrants from Russia belonging to the recent wave of so called … disruption hypothesis and predict the drop in the fertility intentions of new-wave Russian migrants in comparison with the old … the active reproductive age, partnered and in many cases childless, the authors find a strong intention to the fertility …
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The negative correlation between female employment and fertility in industrialized nations has weakened since the 1960s …-skilled immigration has driven down wages in the US child-care sector. More affordable child-care has, in turn, increased the fertility of …, immigrant-led declines in the price of child-care has reduced the extent of role incompatibility between fertility and work. …
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fertility rates that resulted in Germany can be transfered to Japan. …
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The authors build a model of child labor and study its implication for welfare and fertility. Assuming there is a trade …
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How can parents secure old-age support in the form of care, attention or financial transfers from their children? We explore the enforcement of implicit intergenerational agreements from a fresh angle by studying the possibility that the child's conduct is conditioned by the parents' example....
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