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Household composition is traditionally regarded as exogenous in economic analyses. The migration literature typically assumes that the migration of a household member is not associated with further variations in co-residence choices. We rely on a large Mexican panel survey to provide novel...
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This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a … natural experiment, we do not find evidence on the negative effects of fertility on parental labor supply. By contrast, we …
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more home production. As a result, the cost of raising children increases and fertility declines. Assuming a loss of … utility from children in the case of divorce, lower fertility increases the probability of divorce. Using Spanish data and RDD … introduced in 2007 resulted in a reduction in fertility by up to 60%, an increase in the probability to divorce by 37%, and an …
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distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and …
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growth. The analysis is performed in a two-country growth model with endogenous fertility, in which congestion diseconomies … are incorporated. The model shows that out-migration increases fertility and reduces human capital in the source economy …. At the same time, in-migration reduces fertility and can increase or decrease the average level of human capital in the …
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migration affected fertility by building a decennial bilateral migration matrix between French regions for 1861-1911. The … suggest the convergence towards low birth rates can be explained by the diffusion of low-fertility norms by migrants …
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This paper focuses on the role of home country's birth rates in shaping immigrants' fertility. We use the German Socio …-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first generation immigrants who arrived from different countries and at … destination country. In addition, the fertility rates of source countries explain a large proportion of fertility differentials …
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The paper examines the motivations behind the important migration from Burkina Faso to Côte d'Ivoire, the economic pole in the West African Economic and Monetary Union. The paper uses a detailed household survey dataset on migration, natural resource management, risk management and solidarity...
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