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This paper provides new evidence on the acquisition and persistence of child gender preference among immigrant populations in the United States using Census and American Community Survey data. We first confirm the existing evidence of son preference among immigrant populations from South East...
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The negative correlation between women's education and fertility is strongly observed across regions and time; however …, its interpretation is unclear. Women's education level could affect fertility through its impact on women's health and …
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Low fertility rates are a cause of social concern in many developed countries, with growing youth unemployment often … important insights into the type of policies that would be most effective in promoting fertility. …
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In addition to regular marriage, Australia, Brazil, and 11 US states recognize common law (or de facto) marriage, which allows one or both cohabiting partners to claim, under certain conditions, that an informal union is a marriage. France and some other countries also have several types of...
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media as a link in the causal chain between reality television and fertility. …
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For centuries, scientists from various scientific fields have been leading lively discussions on the (bidirectional) relationship between population growth and economic growth. Particular attention was given to the nature of the population growth variable, i.e. whether it is an endogenous or...
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We believe the massive rural electrification, which began in 1992, played a significant role in the varying fertility …-rural variation in fertility by exploiting the exogenous variations in the access rate to electricity at the district-level. Our … results indicate that electrification contributes to a fall in fertility among rural women by between one and three children …
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married mothers' employment and fertility rates, paying special attention to heterogeneous effects. A heterogeneous agent … model, populated by married households who make decisions related to labour supply and fertility, and the Spanish economy … the fertility rate to increase, but it implies a significant adjustment in tax rates to maintain the same fiscal balance …
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estimate a dynamic programming model of fertility decisions with microdata on fertility histories. We leverage the quasi … reduce fertility by allowing parents to efficiently reach their preferred sex mix, it could also increase it. This is because …
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fertility in East Germany. But did it also affect the fertility of future generations? In this paper, I investigate early …
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