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Change and prediction of income and fertility rates across countries

Shin, Inyong - In: Cogent economics & finance 4 (2016) 1, pp. 1-34

This paper analyzes and predicts the changes of relationship between income and fertility rate of cross-countries using … between income and fertility rate, which is presented in the form of inverted S-shaped curve which shows the three regimes of … demographic transition. Some developed countries have completed their demographic transition in fertility rate, and in developing …

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Income Distribution and Macroeconomics Revisited : The Role of Fertility Adjustment

Nakagawa, Masao; Sugimoto, Yoshiaki - 2009

This paper develops a theory in which households prepare for future education by adjusting the number of children they intend to raise. Income inequality lowers output per worker only if the inequality is attributed in some part to unexpected disturbances after childbirth

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Income distribution and macroeconomics revisited : the role of fertility adjustment

Nakagawa, Masao; Sugimoto, Yoshiaki - 2009

disturbances after childbirth. -- Fertility ; Lock-in effect ; Inequality ; Education …

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Missing Talent : Inequality of Opportunity and Children’s Achievement Mobility in China

Xue, Yuankang - 2023

Circumstance plays a crucial role not only in determining individual academic achievement but also in shaping long-term achievement mobility, which has received limited attention in previous literature. Our study, based on the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) data from 2010 and 2014 as well as...

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Social security, differential fertility, and the dynamics of the earnings distribution

Zhao, Kai - 2009

Economists and demographers have long argued that fertility differs by income (differential fertility), and that social … security creates incentives for people to rear fewer children. Does the effect of social security on fertility differ by income …? How does social security change the cross-sectional relationship between fertility and income? Does social security …

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The Evolution of Income and Fertility Inequalities over the Course of Economic Development : A Human Capital Perspective

Ehrlich, Isaac - 2008

the dynamic evolution of income and fertility distributions and their interdependencies over three endogenous phases of … economic development. In our model, heterogeneous families determine fertility and children's human capital, and generations … dynamic behavior of inequalities in fertility, educational attainments, and three endogenous income inequality measures …

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Mortality, Human Capital and Persistent Inequality

Chakraborty, Shankha; Das, Mausumi - 2003

Available evidence suggests high intergenerational correlation of economic status, and persistent disparities in health status between the rich and the poor. This paper proposes a novel mechanism linking the two. We introduce health human capital into a two-period overlapping generations model....

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Overall Inequality Verses Wealth Based Inequality in Child Malnutrition : An Empirical Illustration for India

Sarkar, Debaprasad; Haldar, Sushil Kumar - 2014

This paper outlines a comparison empirically between overall inequality in child malnutrition (Malnutrition-Gini) and wealth based inequality in child malnutrition (Wealth-Based-Concentration Index) for Indian children. The framework by A. Wagstaff and E.van Doorslaer, 2003 is used for this...

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What if you had been less fortunate : the effects of poor family background on current labor market outcomes

Cho, Sungwook; Heshmati, Almas - 2013

This study examines the correlation between childhood poverty and its influence on adulthood wage distribution, where childhood poverty refers to experience of poverty or poor family background during one's childhood. With the data from Korean Labor Income Panel Study, KLIPS, quantile regression...

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Gendered effects of employment protection on earnings mobility

Bárcena Martín, Elena; Medina-Claros, Samuel; … - 2020

This paper explores potential gendered effects of employment protection on earnings mobility, differentiating between upward and downward movements. We conduct a micro-macro mobility analysis for 23 European countries over the economic downturn period 2008–2014. The results confirm that,...

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