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the "Later, Longer, Fewer" (LLF) family planning campaign in the 1970s. Using the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal …This study documents increased intergenerational support for elderly parents in China among adults who were exposed to … Study, we identify adults of childbearing age whose fertility was reduced. We find LLF exposure increases the likelihood of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495580
the "Later, Longer, Fewer" (LLF) family planning campaign in the 1970s. Using the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal …This study documents increased intergenerational support for elderly parents in China among adults who were exposed to … Study, we identify adults of childbearing age whose fertility was reduced. We find LLF exposure increases the likelihood of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534039
the "Later, Longer, Fewer" (LLF) family planning campaign in the 1970s. Using the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal …This study documents increased intergenerational support for elderly parents in China among adults who were exposed to … Study, we identify adults of childbearing age whose fertility was reduced. We find LLF exposure increases the likelihood of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014483940
children do not reflect the true extent of son preference in high fertility countries such as Pakistan, where the success of … preference on fertility behaviour in Pakistan, accurate measurement of the forms this gender bias can take is necessary to … appropriately gauge the influence of son preference on the fertility outcomes. The limited capacity of existing measures to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013349420
involved in the legislative process), we show that an expansion in the welfare state increases the fertility, marriage, and … formation. Nevertheless, we also find that the welfare state decouples marriage and fertility, and therefore, alters the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345865
fertility of third and subsequent births. As of April 2017, all third and subsequent born children to low-income families in the …-order fertility among lowincome families. However, compared to earlier research in the UK and elsewhere, largely based on benefit … low income families. Our results imply that the main impact of cuts to child benefits is not to reduce fertility but to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172871
involved in the legislative process), we show that an expansion in the welfare state increases the fertility, marriage, and … formation. Nevertheless, we also find that the welfare state decouples marriage and fertility, and therefore, alters the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009738835
Since the seminal work of Becker, the dynamics of endogenous fertility has been based on the trade-off faced by parents … upstream, so as to keep fertility endogenous. We do that by adding a negative "sibship size effect" on human capital formation …, the possibility of a jump from a state with high fertility and low income to a state with low fertility and high income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011384187
We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child … care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous … costs on fertility in a context in which child care enrolment is almost universal and the labor force participation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003789307
We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child … care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous … costs on fertility in a context in which child care enrolment is almost universal and the labor force participation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794128