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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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This paper considers the implications of the financing of government services to children when fertility decisions are … biased away from the socially preferred result. The bias results in higher fertility rates and lower economic growth rates …
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This paper provides empirical evidence on fertility determinants in Arab countries. Adopting a macro and micro … differentiated fertility and that female education mitigates high fertility. Child mortality and parent`s preferences for sons … positively affect fertility. By and large, demand for children is price and income inelastic. …
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fertility is positive if child quantity is a closer complement than child quality to the consumption of goods. (ii) If, instead …, there is a combination of purchased and own care, the effect of income on fertility is ambiguous, even if quantity of …
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of married women lead to increases in their labor supply and reductions in fertility. In Italy, low labor market … market participation of married women. We analyze a model of labor supply and fertility, using panel data. The empirical …
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Fertility Revolution" and questions regarding the applicability of the theory of household choice in modernizing societies. This …
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This study examines households’ fertility variations in response to expected permanent shifts in the return to … fertility process. The results indicate that high education parents’ fertility responds negatively to changes in the expected … return to college and negatively to changes in the expected return to high school. On the other hand, the fertility of low …
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