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What accounts for the emergence of Malthusian fertility in transition economies?

Micevska, Maja B. (contributor); Zak, Paul J. (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

corresponding drop in fertility. This is contrary to the robust negative relationship between income and fertility that has been … extensively documented. This paper presents a theoretical model that explains the positive relationship between fertility and … income. The model predicts that: i) the perceived level of subsistence consumption fundamentally determines whether fertility …

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Happy people have children : choice and self-selection into parenthood

Cetre, Sophie; Clark, Andrew E.; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2016

There is mixed evidence in the existing literature on whether children are associated with greater subjective well-being, with the correlation depending on which countries and populations are considered. We here provide a systematic analysis of this question based on three different datasets:...

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Income effects on children's life satisfaction : longitudinal evidence for England

Knies, Gundi - 2017

Using longitudinal data for children aged 10-15 years living in England in 2009-2014 we test the hypothesis that income matters for children’s life satisfaction. The results suggest that children are more satisfied with life the more income their family has. Income effects are larger the less...

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Intergenerational income mobility and income taxation

Kurnaz, Musab; Soytas, Mehmet A. - 2019

the increase in the fertility rate (quantity) and the decrease in the educational outcome of children (quality), is highly …

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Dynamics and stagnation in the Malthusian epoch : theory and evidence

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2008

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Dynamics and stagnation in the Malthusian epoch : theory and evidence

Ashraf, Quamrul (contributor); Galor, Oded (contributor) - 2008

This paper empirically tests the predictions of the Malthusian theory with respect to both population dynamics and income per capita stagnation in the pre-Industrial Revolution era. The theory suggests that improvements in technology during this period generated only temporary gains in income...

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Dynamics and stagnation in the Malthusian epoch

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2011

"This paper examines the central hypothesis of the influential Malthusian theory, according to which improvements in the technological environment during the pre-industrial era had generated only temporary gains in income per capita, eventually leading to a larger, but not significantly richer,...

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Survival of the richest : the Malthusian mechanism in pre-industrial England

Clark, Gregory (contributor); Hamilton, Gillian (contributor) - 2006

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How does parental divorce affect children's long-term outcomes?

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2016

Numerous papers report a negative association between parental divorce and child outcomes. To provide evidence whether this correlation is driven by a causal effect, we exploit idiosyncratic variation in the extent of sexual integration in fathers' workplaces: Fathers who encounter more women in...

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How does parental divorce affect children's long-term outcomes?

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2016

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472164

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