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The paper outlines a methodology that allows us to determine whether couples. fertility is supply constrained based on … UTG response, it can be concluded that fertility of many couples in Bangladesh was constrained by supply. …
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. The paper estimates the effect of mothers' program exposure on fertility and children's time allocation. The results show … that while the program was effective in reducing fertility, it had no significant impact on children's school enrollment …
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instrument fertility will under-estimate impacts of fertility on parental investments and women's labour supply. This is …
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fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline …
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Fertility rates significantly fell over the last decades in Latin America. In order to assess the extent to which these … microdata from national household surveys from seven Latin American countries. We find that changes in fertility rates were … fertility implied smaller families and hence larger per capita incomes. Lower fertility also fostered labor force participation …
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fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a …
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fertility rates and reducing output growth in the transitional dynamics. If human or physical stocks are sufficiently low, the … model shows that an economy can be caught in a fertility-caused poverty trap, while countries with more resources will …
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This paper builds an age-structural model of human population genetics in which agents are endowed with a high-dimensional genome that determines their cognitive and physical characteristics. Young adults optimally search for a marriage partner, work for firms, consume goods, save for old age...
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