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This paper presents Gary Becker's approach to conducting creative, empirically fruitful economic research. It describes the traits and methodology that made him such a productive and influential scholar.
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, reducing hospitalization costs and the foregone income of mothers and improving the long-run socioeconomic outcomes of children …
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of a largescale cohort studyof children living in the Netherlands at the beginning of the new millennium. TheNetherlands … of parents and children. For both ordinary least square estimates as well as the sensitivity analyses the results do not …
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In many developed countries a decline in fertility has occurred. This development has been attributed to greater … education of women. However, establishing a causal link is difficult as both fertility and education have changed secularly. The … contribution of this paper is to study the connection between fertility and education over a woman’s fertile period focusing on …
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, work for firms, consume goods, save for old age and, if married, decide how many children to have. Applying the fundamental … genetic operations, children receive genetic material from their parents. An agent's human capital (productivity) is an …
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Individuals typically traverse several life phases before forming a family. We analyse whether changing the duration of one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit the introduction of short school years in Germany in...
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Individuals typically traverse several life phases before forming a family. We analyze whether changing the duration of one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit the introduction of short school years (SSYs) in Germany...
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is still largely unclear what caused them. This paper presents a new unified explanation of the fertility Boom-Bust that … the entry of the D-cohort is associated with increased births in the 1950s, while its retirement turned the fertility Boom … completed fertility of all cohorts involved. …
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Earnings in mid-career and children are two fundamental outcomes of the life-choices of men and women. Both require …, completed fertility and mid-career earnings. We find an overall increasing inequality in career and family outcomes of men …
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engage in unpaid work, and to marry and have children, is formulated as a forward-looking discrete choice dynamic programming …
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