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U.S. Immigration Policy and Immigrant Fertility

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther - 2020

undocumented immigrants' fertility. We find that a one standard deviation increases in enforcement lowers childbearing among likely …

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The baby boom and World War II: a macroeconomic analysis

Doepke, Matthias; Hazan, Moshe; Maoz, Yishay D. - 2007

II. We develop a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model with endogenous fertility and female labor … well as patterns for age-specific labor-force participation and fertility rates that are consistent with U.S. data. …

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Fertility differences between married and cohabiting couples: a switching regression analysis

Zhang, Junfu; Song, Xue - 2007

explain the difference in fertility between these two groups using a switching regression analysis, which enables us to …

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Immigrant labor, child care services, and the work fertility trade-off in the United States

Furtado, Delia; Hock, Heinrich - 2008

The negative correlation between female employment and fertility in industrialized nations has weakened since the 1960s …-skilled immigration has driven down wages in the US child-care sector. More affordable child-care has, in turn, increased the fertility of …, immigrant-led declines in the price of child-care has reduced the extent of role incompatibility between fertility and work. …

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The transmission of women's fertility, human capital and work orientation across immigrant generations

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Liu, Albert Yung-Hsu - 2008

fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women …'s fertility and labor supply are significantly positively affected by the immigrant generation's fertility and labor supply … respectively, with the effect of mother's fertility and labor supply larger than that of women from the father's source country …

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Gender, source country characteristics and labor market assimilation among immigrants: 1980 - 2000

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Papps, Kerry L. - 2008

. Findings for another indicator of traditional gender roles, source country fertility rates, are broadly similar, with … substantial and persistent negative effects of source country fertility on the labor supply of female immigrants except when we …

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Egalitarian religion and economics

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010

The role of women in the ritual of many religions changed dramatically at the end of the 20th century, to the point where full participation by women was the norm by 2000 rather than the rarity that it had been 30 years earlier. This paper considers some aspects of the economic context that help...

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The role of religion in economic and demographic behavior in the United States: a review of the recent literature

Lehrer, Evelyn Lilian - 2008

, labor supply and wealth accumulation; union formation and dissolution; and fertility. The paper also comments on the growing …

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Power of the pill or power of abortion? Re-examining the effects of young women's access to reproductive control

Myers, Caitlin Knowles - 2012

Recent research postulating that the diffusion of confidential access to the birth control pill to young women in the United States contributed to the dramatic social changes of the late 1960s and 1970s has not adequately accounted for the largely contemporaneous diffusion of access to abortion....

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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico

Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - 2000

Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely to settle permanently in the United States, (2)...

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