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Life after loss : the causal effect of parental death on daughters' fertility

Glaser, Felix; Wiesinger, Rene - 2024

We use high-quality administrative data from Austria to credibly identify the causal effect of parental death on daughters' fertility. To account for the endogeneity of parental death, we exploit the timing of deaths in a difference-in-differences research design. Parental death has no...

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Institutions and demographic responses to shocks : Württemberg, 1634-1870

Guinnane, Timothy; Ogilvie, Sheilagh C. - 2008

. Mortality was less sensitive to shocks than one would expect, while nuptiality was especially sensitive. -- Malthusian models … ; mortality ; fertility ; nuptiality ; guilds …

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Fertility, Mortality and Environmental Policy

Lehmijoki, Ulla - 2017

This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is … pollution-induced mortality but also shifts resources to the clean sector. If the dirty sector is more capital intensive, then … expansion of population boosts total pollution, aggravating mortality …

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Children s health, human capital accumulation, and R&D-based economic growth

Baldanzi, Annarita; Bucci, Alberto; Prettner, Klaus - 2017

We analyze the effects of children's health on human capital accumulation and on long-run economic growth. For this purpose we design an R&D-based growth model in which the stock of human capital of the next generation is determined by parental education and health investments. We show that i)...

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The long run relationship between population growth and economic growth : a panel data analysis of 30 of the most populated countries of the world

Pegou Sibe, Jacob; Chiatchoua, Cesaire; Megne, Marie Noel - In: Análisis económico 31 (2016) 77, pp. 205-218

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Gender Equity and the Escape from Poverty

Prettner, Klaus - 2014

We set up a unified growth model with gender-specific differences in tastes for consumption, fertility, education of daughters and sons, and consider the intra-household bargaining power of spouses. In line with the empirical regularity for less developed countries, we assume that mothers desire...

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Endogenous growth, population growth and the repugnant conclusion

Marsiglio, Simone - 2010

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The Great Transition : Kuznets Facts for Family-Economists

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Marto, Ricardo - 2021

The 20th century beheld a dramatic transformation of the family. Some Kuznets style facts regarding structural change in the family are presented. Over the course of the 20th century in the United States fertility declined, educational attainment waxed, housework fell, leisure increased, jobs...

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Human genealogy reveals a selective advantage to moderate fecundity

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2019

This research presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity had maximized long-run reproductive success in the human population. Using a reconstructed genealogy for nearly half a million individuals in Quebec during the 1608-1800 period, we find that while a high fecundity was associated...

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Population and economic growth in Mexico : regime dynamics and causality

Cayssials, Gaston; Germán-Soto, Vicente; Segarra, Verónica - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 32 (2023), pp. 1-25

The dynamic relationship between population and economic growth has not reached a consensus on whether it is positive, negative, or neutral. Using annual panel data for the 32 Mexican states over the period 1940-2020, this paper examines the joint dynamics of population growth and GDP per...

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