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This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility … endogenous fertility, in which the usual parental trade-off between the quantity and quality of their children is augmented with …
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This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a lowskilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled...
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nutrition of their offspring. In this setting we demonstrate that relatively high metabolic costs of fertility, which may have …
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This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility … endogenous fertility, in which the usual parental trade-off between the quantity and quality of their children is augmented with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207881
higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …
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fertility rate and emigration rate are going to develop in Africa. Even modest increases in emigration from Africa would …
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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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performed in a two-country growth model with endogenous fertility. I show that providing additional free educational services …
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This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the … gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively … a model with endogenous fertility, female labour supply and childcare choices which fits these facts. There may exist …
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This paper develops a tractable, heterogeneous agents general equilibrium model where individuals have different endowments of the factors that complement the schooling process. The paper explores the relationship between inequality of opportunities, inequality of outcomes, and efficiency in...
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