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Using data from three cycles of the National Survey of Family Growth, we investigate whether there were adverse consequences of teenage childbearing in the 1950s and 1960s, when most abortions were illegal, and access to the pill was limited. We find negative effects of teen motherhood on the...
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fertility rates are higher, the elderly do not appear to have lower life evaluations when they live with children; such living …
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countries reduce fertility or improve socio-economic outcomes. Despite suggestive associations, disagreement persists because … independently later in life. Although family planning explains only about 10% of Colombia%u2019s fertility decline, it appears to … have reduced the otherwise substantial costs of fertility control and may be among the most effective development …
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look at the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of …
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This article presents causal evidence on the impact of fertility on women’s subjective well-being using quasi …. I further establish that the positive impact of fertility on subjective well-being can be explained by related increases …
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effects of schooling on the fertility of women under the age of 45. This is due to the application of methods to an … completed fertility had increased from its all time low in the nineteen seventies. …
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This paper develops and estimates an empirical model of the interplay between fertility and economic development. Using … interplay between fertility and output obtained from single cross-country regressions are biased downward because that method of …
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temporarily or permanently affect fertility in small open economies. This article tests the Becker-Barro model with relevant data … that government subsidies for having children have a strong positive effect on fertility, while the provision of public … is only weak support for the hypothesis that real interest rates positively influence fertility. …
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Over the past decades, due to a combination of declining fertility rates and rising life expectancies, most … the future. This paper investigates the relationship first between fertility rate and infant mortality rate and second … overall economic activity and the labor market on the bivariate relationship between fertility and mortality rates, the …
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This note reviews and evaluates Tasiran's (1995) claim that estimated female wage effects on Swedish fertility dynamics …
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