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Physiological Constraints and Comparative Economic Development
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2017
It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in … particular, we develop a dynamic model of economic and physiological development in which households decide upon the number and … nutrition of their offspring. In this setting we demonstrate that relatively high metabolic costs of fertility, which may have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794133
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Family planning and women's and children's health: Long term consequences of an outreach program in Matlab, Bangladesh
Joshi, Shareen; Schultz, T. Paul - 2012
declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in surviving fertility persisted for … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282602
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When does improving health raise GDP?
Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Lester, Ashley; Weil, David N. - 2008
We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous health improvements on output per capita. Our simulation model allows for a direct effect of health on worker productivity, as well as indirect effects that run through schooling, the size and age-structure of the population, capital accumulation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284028
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Cutting fertility: The effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply
Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016
fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in … fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531591
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Multiple Births, Birth Quality and Maternal Labor Supply: Analysis of IVF Reform in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2019
In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003. Following publication of medical evidence showing that pregnancy success rates could be maintained using single rather than multiple embryo transfers, the single embryo transfer (SET)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141127
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Does Unemployment Worsen Babies' Health? A Tale of Siblings, Maternal Behaviour and Selection
De Cao, Elisabetta; McCormick, Barry; Nicodemo, Catia - 2019
importantly, we also show for the first time that selection into fertility is the main driver for the previously observed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141205
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Multiple births, birth quality and maternal labor supply: Analysis of IVF reform in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2019
In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003. Following publication of medical evidence showing that pregnancy success rates could be maintained using single rather than multiple embryo transfers, the single embryo transfer (SET)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145514
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Fertility and income
Schultz, T. Paul (contributor) - 2005
There is an inverse association between income per adult and fertility among countries, and across households this … inverse association is also often observed. Many studies find fertility is lower among better educated women and is often … policies that change fertility, if they are independent of parent preferences for children or the economic conditions which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003279691
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Family planning as an investment in development : evaluation of a program's consequences in Matlab, Bangladesh
Joshi, Shareen; Schultz, T. Paul - 2007
decline in fertility of about 15 percent in the program villages compared with the control villages by 1982 , as others have … estimated in addition to fertility : women's health, earnings and household assets, use of preventive health inputs, and finally … fertility and child mortality. This suggests social returns to this reproductive health program in rural South Asia have many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003810500
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HIV and fertility in Africa : first evidence from population based surveys
Juhn, Chinhui; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Turan, Belgi - 2009
/AIDS ; fertility ; economic development …The historical pattern of the demographic transition suggests that fertility declines follow mortality declines … responses in fertility will reinforce this decline by reducing the willingness to engage in unprotected sex. We utilize recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902438