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population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate micro-founded fertility and schooling into … future economic growth - when fertility is going to be below replacement level in virtually all fully developed countries …
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It is generally thought that both the demand for children and the cost of fertility control are major forces in … fertility decline. Most researchers find that family planning programs in developing countries, which lower the cost of … fertility control, play a small role in the fertility transition relative to other economic factors that affect the demand for …
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This paper provides a theoretical and empirical investigation of the impact of social learning on modern contraceptive prevalence. A theory is developed where own or neighbors' experience increases the benefit from using modern contraceptives by reducing the uncertainty regarding contraceptive...
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The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between alcohol-related mortality and social status among men in Austria, and to examine changes during the 1980s and 1990s. We linked individual census records for the Austrian population from 1981, 1991, and 2001 with death register records...
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Micro-level relationships between union formation or dissolution and childbearing have implications for fertility that … variation and change around replacement level fertility. On the one hand, union dissolution reduces opportunities for conceiving …' children. The balance between these two opposing forces and their implications for fertility levels is unknown and will depend …
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subsequent pregnancy. We construct monthly duration and order-specific fertility rates and parity progression ratios to study … rates or on period fertility trends. As in most cases analysed for other developed countries, the main effect of the policy … change was on the tempo of fertility, namely on the spacing of second and third births. …
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Aim of this paper is to investigate the effects of environmental conditions on human reproductive behavior in the highest industrialized countries. We discuss the hypothesis that individuals fearing for a foreseen unhealthy environment tend to delay or forgo childbearing, thus contributing to a...
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In general, the spreading of egalitarian family values has often been associated with a decline in fertility. However …, recently a rebound in fertility has been observed in several industrialized countries. A possible explanation of this trend may … to study the diffusion from traditional to egalitarian gender-behavior and its impact on fertility. We find that the long …
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In the European context Austria's population has a tradition of low fertility. Between the world wars of the 20th … century Austria had the lowest fertility in Europe. It recovered most notably during the 1950s and early 1960s, but has been … which started with women born in the late 1940s. Women born during the 1970s had lower fertility than any previous cohorts …
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by prior research. This study investigates how female scientists’ fertility behaviour relates to their childbearing …
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