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the fertility and marital behavior in Germany, until recently a lowest-low fertility setting. We find that exposure to … greater import competition from Eastern Europe led to worse labor market outcomes and lower fertility rates. In contrast …, workers in industries that benefited from increased exports had better employment prospects and higher fertility. These …
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We study the role of fertility adjustments for the labor market responsiveness of men and women. First, we use … longitudinal Danish register data and tax reforms from 2009 to provide new empirical evidence on asymmetric fertility adjustments … to tax changes of men and women. Second, we quantify the importance of these fertility adjustments for understanding the …
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the interactions between climate change and population dynamics. We develop an analytical model of endogenous fertility …
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China has set to increase the minimum retirement age, to ease the pressure from pension expenditure and the falling labor supply caused by the aging population. However, policy debates have so far neglected the crucial fact that families in China largely rely on retired grandparents for...
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preferences related to fertility and mortality, the two basic components of genetic fitness. We specifically select six referenda … related to health and fertility and analyse differences in the proportion of yes votes across municipalities on the two sides … preferences and choices related to individual health and fertility. These findings further suggest that at least one of the two …
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In this paper, we conduct an empirical study of how uncertainty alters fertility behavior. The precautionary motive for … saving predicts that an increase in income uncertainty increases saving by reducing both consumption and fertility. We … countries for the period from 1996 to 2017. The empirical findings indicate that uncertainty decreases the fertility rate, as …
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there was no change in the overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in nonmarital … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior …
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Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the …
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I build an equilibrium investment-and-marriage model to explain stylized facts about education, income, and marriage for Americans born in the twentieth century that had not been explained in a unified way. The most novel finding is a theoretical explanation for why women attend college at a...
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Using Swedish population register data on cohorts born 1982-1994 (N=1,087,750), we examine the effects of preterm births on school grades using sibling fixed effect models which compare individuals with their non-preterm siblings. We test for heterogeneous effects by degree of prematurity, as...
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