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Fertility, Regional Demographics, and Economic Integration

Goto, Hiroshi; Minamimura, Keiya - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2015

To explain the links between population distribution and economic integration, we construct a spatial economics model with endogenous fertility. A higher population concentration increases real wages and child-raising costs, thus lowering the fertility rate. However, people migrate to more...

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Restrictions on migration create gender inequality : the story of China's left-behind children

Gao, Xuwen; Liang, Wenquan; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; … - 2022

About 11% of the Chinese population are rural-urban migrants, and the vast majority of them (124 million people) possess a rural hukou which severely restrict their children's access to urban public schools. As a result, 61 million children are left behind in rural areas. We use a...

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Remittances and child labor in Pakistan : a tale of complementarities

Bang, James T.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Abbas, Faisal - 2023

We investigate the impact of remittance income on the household decision to send a child to work. Using data from a Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey conducted in the Punjab province of Pakistan in 2014, we isolate the causal impact of remittance income by employing statistical matching to...

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The effects of migration and fertility on the age-sex structure of Lagos State, Nigeria

Ugomma, EJEKWUMADU Esther; Ani, MADU Ignatius; … - In: Economia. Seria Management 12 (2009) 2, pp. 28-38

This research was carried out to appraise the influence of fertility and migration on the age-sex population structure … migration trends in the study area. Using partial correlation and multiple regression analyses, we determined the influence of … migration and fertility on the age structure of the population. The combined effects of the partial correlation of fertility and …

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Land Access and Youth Livelihood Opportunities in Southern Ethiopia

Holden, Stein; Bezu, Sosina - School of Economics and Business, Norges miljø- og … - 2013

-agricultural livelihoods. We also found a significant rural -urban migration among the youth and especially in areas with severe agricultural … that as a certain level of rural-urban migration is unavoidable, investigating youth migration is essential to design …

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Spatial Typology of the Ageing Process in the European Union on the Level NUTS 2 Regions

Šotkovský, Ivan - 2014

The article is deal with the spatial differences of the demographic events between European Union regions. We are research spatial diferencies of ageing process between 272 NUTS 2 regions today. The analyses on this spatial level are working with the creation of cartogram method for processing...

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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China

Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - 2014

Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...

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Explaining fertility variation in rural communities: The role of electricity in Ghana

Akpandjar, George; Puozaa, Conrad; Quartey, Peter - In: Economies 6 (2018) 3, pp. 1-13

We believe the massive rural electrification, which began in 1992, played a significant role in the varying fertility rates across rural Ghana. Rural households with electricity, tend to have fewer children ever born to a woman than households without electricity. Using control function...

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Childcare, eldercare, and labor force participation of married women in urban China: 1982 - 2000

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Lan, Chen; … - 2009

We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the presence in the household of preschool and...

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Explaining residential clustering of fertility

Bergsvik, Janna; Cools, Sara; Hart, Rannveig K. - 2020

Numerous studies have shown that fertility behavior is spatially clustered. In addition to pure context effects, two causal mechanisms could drive this pattern. First, neighbors may influence each other's fertility behavior, and second, household fertility intentions and behavior may influence...

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