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The dynamic implications of liberalizing global migration

Delogu, Marco; Docquier, Frédéric; Machado, Joël - 2014

distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and …

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Optimal fertility along the life cycle

Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthière, Grégory - In: Economic theory : official journal of the Society for … 55 (2014) 1, pp. 185-224

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Climate change and reproductive intentions in Europe

De Rose, Alessandra; Testa, Maria Rita - 2013

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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Timing of college enrollment and family formation decisions

Humlum, Maria Knoth; Kristoffersen, Jannie H. G.; … - 2014

fertility decisions. Specifically, we employ a regression discontinuity design based on the college admission system to estimate …

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Parenthood and productivity of highly skilled labor : evidence from the groves of academe

Krapf, Matthias; Ursprung, Heinrich W.; Zimmermann, … - 2014

We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the survey responses of nearly 10,000 economists with their publication records as documented in their RePEc accounts, we do not find that motherhood is associated with low research...

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Parental response to early human capital shocks : evidence from the Chernobyl accident

Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2014

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents'...

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Fertility and economic instability : the role of unemployment and job displacement

Del Bono, Emilia; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2014

In this paper we study the separate effects of unemployment and job displace- ment on fertility in a sample of white … negative effect on fertility decisions, but the very fact of being displaced from a career-oriented job has. Fertility rates …

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Bride price and fertility decisions : evidence from rural Senegal

Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Wagner, Natascha - 2013

This paper is the first to provide evidence about the relationship between bride price payments and fertility decisions … in the African context. Remarkably, the results show that bride price payments reduce fertility pressure, with a woman … address the potential endogeneity between bride price payments and fertility decisions. As possible transmission channels, we …

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Type of employer and fertility of working women : does working in the public sector or in a large private firm matter?

Conti, Maurizio; Sette, Enrico - In: Cambridge journal of economics 37 (2013) 6, pp. 1303-1333

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Skill composition, fertility and economic growth

Day, Creina - 2013

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