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The Effect of Contraceptive Knowledge on Fertility: The Roles of Mass Media and Social Networks
Cheng, Kai-Wen - In: Journal of Family and Economic Issues 32 (2011) 2, pp. 257-267
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009150384
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The contribution of increases in family benefits to Australia’s early 21st-century fertility increase: An empirical analysis
Parr, Nick - In: Demographic Research 25 (2011) 6, pp. 215-244
Between 2001 and 2008 Australia’s total fertility increased from 1.73 to 1.96. This period also saw changes to family …. This paper analyses individual-level fertility, using data from a large-scale longitudinal survey and focusing on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009195608
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The Galor–Weil gender-gap model revisited: from home to market
Kimura, Masako; Yasui, Daishin - In: Journal of Economic Growth 15 (2010) 4, pp. 323-351
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008776565
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Fertility and Consumption when Having a Child is a Risky Investment
Gete, Pedro; Porchia, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this paper we study a new factor that matters for fertility and consumption decisions: the risks associated with … risky investment and the parental option to time fertility. We focus on CRRA preferences and uninsurable shocks to future … fertility framework where children are deterministic goods: i) Independently of wealth, higher child cost volatility diminishes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784961
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Which Democracies Pay Higher Wages?*
Rockey, James; Makris, Miltiadis - Department of Economics, Leicester University - 2010
The labor share of income varies markedly across the set of democracies. A model of the political process, situated in a simple macroeconomic environment is analyzed in which the cause of this variation is linked to differences in the form of democracy - in particular the adoption of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788424
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The Demographic Transition: Causes and Consequences
Galor, Oded - Brown University, Department of Economics - 2010
the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008643833
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STATUS, FERTILITY, GROWTH AND THE GREAT TRANSITION
TOURNEMAINE, FREDERIC; TSOUKIS, CHRISTOPHER - In: The Singapore Economic Review (SER) 55 (2010) 03, pp. 553-574
We develop an overlapping generation model to examine how the relationship between status concerns, fertility and … explain the facts about fertility during the great transition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008670304
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The Syrian Christians of Kerala: Demographic and Socioeconomic Transition in the Twentieth Century
Zachariah, K.C. - eSocialSciences - 2010
comprising fertility, mortality, and migration. [Working Paper No. 322] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671986
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Senescence vs. sustenance: Evolutionary-demographic models of aging
Baudisch, Annette; Vaupel, James W. - In: Demographic Research 23 (2010) 23, pp. 655-668
Humans, and many other species, suffer senescence: mortality increases and fertility declines with adult age. Some … species, however, enjoy sustenance: mortality and fertility remain constant. Here we develop simple but general evolutionary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008678236
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Fertility and Mortality Data for Germany. Recent Progress and Future Challenges
Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Scholz, Rembrandt - Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD), … - 2009
In recent years, considerable progress has been made in improving the data infrastructure for fertility and morality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008678579