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Childlessness, a driving force of fertility, has undergone strong variations in 20th-century Europe, and educational … based on census and largescale survey data from 13 European countries, collected in the Cohort Fertility and Education … education. The results suggest that the changes in the educational composition of the population were only marginally related to …
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Childlessness, a driving force of fertility, has undergone strong variations in 20th-century Europe, and educational … based on census and largescale survey data from 13 European countries, collected in the Cohort Fertility and Education … education. The results suggest that the changes in the educational composition of the population were only marginally related to …
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"Southern Europe"; an area characterized by cultural and institutional specificities which have important implications for the … female education) we also use individual level data from the 2003 Istat multipurpose survey “Famiglia e soggetti socialiâ …
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-fertility countries in Europe, North America, Australia and East Asia. We decompose the change in cohort fertility in each country among … Europe, where fertility decline was driven primarily by falling second birth rates and the German-speaking countries …, Southern Europe, and East Asia, where the fall in first birth rates (and the corresponding rise in childlessness) had a …
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-fertility countries in Europe, North America, Australia and East Asia. We decompose the change in cohort fertility in each country among … Europe, where fertility decline was driven primarily by falling second birth rates and the German-speaking countries …, Southern Europe, and East Asia, where the fall in first birth rates (and the corresponding rise in childlessness) had a …
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This chapter studies the interface in poor countries of population growth, rural poverty, and deterioration of the local natural-resource base, a subject that has been much neglected by modern demographers and development economists. The motivations for procreation in rural communities of the...
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We construct an overlapping generations model for the small open economy whichincorporates a realistic description of the mortality process. Agents engage in educational activities at the start of life and thus create human capital to be used later on in life for production purposes. Depending...
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This Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper on the Democratic Republic of Congo discusses economic policies and development. The macroeconomic and budget framework has been developed to take into account the effects of sectoral policies to maintain macroeconomic stability, a necessary condition for...
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