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This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266066
This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and … marital patterns by education for men. -- marriage ; divorce ; fertility ; education …"This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937272
cross-nationally. Countries in the early stages of development have very high birth rates and a growing youthful population … with only the most extreme cases of genocide detrimentally affecting their long-term population. They are resilient due to … the scale of potential population growth. More developed countries with near stagnated population growth and an …
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This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316256
This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572535
currently has the lowest total fertility rate in the world. In this paper, we propose a theory with status externalities and … endogenous fertility that connects these two facts. Using a quantitative heterogeneous-agent model calibrated to Korea, we find … that fertility would be 16% higher in the absence of the status externality and that childlessness in the poorest quintile …
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Structural transformation towards a more knowledge-based economy will strengthen Spain’s medium-term growth prospects. To deal with long standing impediments to higher growth the government has a substantial structural reform programme touching on education, the labour market and the business...
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This paper estimates the effect of changes in population age structure on fertility. Few factors are as inseparable … impact of population age structure on fertility, and provides empirical evidence for its effects. We continue along the lines … from economic and demographic theories of underdevelopment as high fertility rates. Most of the empirical literature on …
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, lower infant mortality, higher urbanization, and higher population density had lower levels of fertility during the 19th and …We investigate the determinants of the fertility decline in Europe from 1830 to 1970 using a newly constructed dataset … of linguistic distances between European regions. We find that the fertility decline resulted from a gradual diffusion of …
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Female secondary school attendance has recently increased in Sub-Saharan Africa and so has the risk of becoming pregnant while attending school. Using panel data in Madagascar, we analyze the impact of teenage pregnancy on young women's human capital. We instrument early pregnancy with the young...
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