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standard framework of endogenous fertility, the present paper shows that this result is still valid but that subsidizing … exhibit a too high fertility rate. Furthemore, when health is introduced as another source of externalities, the model shows … discussed in the light of family policies implemented in China and Sub-Saharan Africa. …
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equilibrium model with endogenous fertility, endogenous labor supply and endogenous size of government spending. Family policies … gender discrimination. An increase in the discrimination level implies a related decrease in fertility, women's participation …This paper focuses on the interaction between gender discrimination and household decisions. It develops a general …
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Exploiting original data from a Senegalese household survey, we provide evidence that fertility choices are partly … to the risk of widowhood intensify their fertility until they get a son. Insurance through sons entails substantial …
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This paper analyzes the respective impact of aid, remittances and medical brain drain on child mortality using panel and cross-country quintile-level data on respectively 84 and 46 developing countries. Our results show that remittances reduce child mortality and that the impact of health aid is...
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While there is a large empirical literature on the intergenerational transmission of health and survival outcomes in relation to lifestyles, little theoretical work exists on the long-run prevalence of (un)healthy lifestyles induced by mortality patterns. To examine that issue, this paper...
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In the case of the comparative societal analysis, the methodological problems are not simple methodological questions but of real theoretical questions. One will take the example of an international comparison relating to the division of the paid work and unpaid, to show how should have been...
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Young children have been largely neglected in research dedicated to the art museum experience. The art exhibition "Tête à tête" ("Face-to-Face"), designed for 5-12 year olds, became an opportunity to bring an exploratory contribution to three research issues: the relationship that the young...
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can be considered as a good analyser to reveal a specific - and national - form of interdependence between work, family … interaction between the strategic interplay of various actors and the national representation of family crystallized in the public …
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egalitarian optimum involves a higher capital and a lower fertility than the utilitarian optimum. Those inequalities hold also in …
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significantly influences fertility. To have been raised in a religious family and to be a believer do not matter either. The … influence of parental fertility on the respondent's own fertility and the transmission of "Family Ties" among generations. I … family, economics, I find that male income has a positive impact on female fertility whereas the female income has a negative …
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