Author: McKinley L. Blackburn
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Category : Human capital
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Fertility Timing, Wages, and Human Capital
Author: McKinley L. Blackburn
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Category : Human capital
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Category : Human capital
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Fertility timing, wages, and human capital
Author: McKinley Blackburn
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Languages : es
Pages : 35
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Languages : es
Pages : 35
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Fertility Timing, Wages, and Human Capital
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Languages : en
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Fertility Timing, Labor Supply Disruptions, and the Wage Profiles of American Women
Author: David E. Bloom
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Category : Birth intervals
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Category : Birth intervals
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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The Timing of Childbearing Among Heterogeneous Women in Dynamic General Equilibrium
Author: Charles H. Mullin
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Category : Age factors in disease
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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We develop a tractable framework with a fully specified dynamic process of demographic and labor decisions over an individual female's life span to determine the timing of childbearing. Fertility affects women's behavior through three channels: its tradeoff with leisure, its interactions with human capital investment, and its cost in terms of lost market productivity. Instead of numerically solving a discrete-time version of the model, we propose an alternative solution technique that provides analytic, closed-form solutions for the continuous-time dynamic optimization problem with (discrete) time-line variables. The analytic results indicate that (i) increased impatience has an ambiguous effect on childbearing timing; (ii) the age at first birth rises at an increasing rate with the productivity loss from children; and (iii) women of greater ability have births at later ages and are more sensitive to parameter changes. Calibration exercises suggest that focusing on the median female's response to changes in the preference, cost, and technology parameters fails to capture their important distributional effects.
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Category : Age factors in disease
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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We develop a tractable framework with a fully specified dynamic process of demographic and labor decisions over an individual female's life span to determine the timing of childbearing. Fertility affects women's behavior through three channels: its tradeoff with leisure, its interactions with human capital investment, and its cost in terms of lost market productivity. Instead of numerically solving a discrete-time version of the model, we propose an alternative solution technique that provides analytic, closed-form solutions for the continuous-time dynamic optimization problem with (discrete) time-line variables. The analytic results indicate that (i) increased impatience has an ambiguous effect on childbearing timing; (ii) the age at first birth rises at an increasing rate with the productivity loss from children; and (iii) women of greater ability have births at later ages and are more sensitive to parameter changes. Calibration exercises suggest that focusing on the median female's response to changes in the preference, cost, and technology parameters fails to capture their important distributional effects.
How Does Adolescent Fertility Affect the Human Capital and Wages of Young Women?
Author: Daniel H. Klepinger
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Category : Single mothers
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Category : Single mothers
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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The Gender Gap, Fertility, and Growth
Author: Oded Galor
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Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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This paper examines a novel mechanism linking fertility and growth. Household fertility is determined by relative wages of women and men. Increasing women's wages reduces fertility by raising the cost of children relatively more than household income. Lower fertility raises the level of capital per worker which in turn, since capital is more complementary to women's labor input than men's, raises women's relative wages. This positive feedback leads to the possibility of multiple steady-state equilibria. Countries with low initial capital may converge to a development trap with high fertility, low capital, and low relative wages for women.
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Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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This paper examines a novel mechanism linking fertility and growth. Household fertility is determined by relative wages of women and men. Increasing women's wages reduces fertility by raising the cost of children relatively more than household income. Lower fertility raises the level of capital per worker which in turn, since capital is more complementary to women's labor input than men's, raises women's relative wages. This positive feedback leads to the possibility of multiple steady-state equilibria. Countries with low initial capital may converge to a development trap with high fertility, low capital, and low relative wages for women.
Fertility, Time Use and Economic Development
Author: Karine Swensen Moe
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Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Investment in Women's Human Capital
Author: T. Paul Schultz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226740874
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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How are human capital investments allocated between women and men? What are the returns to investments in women's nutrition, health care, education, mobility, and training? In thirteen wide-ranging and innovative empirical analyses, Investment in Women's Human Capital explores the nature of human capital distributions to women and their effect on outcomes within the family. Section I considers the experiences of high-income countries, examining the limitations of industrialization for the advancement of women; returns to secondary education for women; and state control of women's education and labor market productivity through the design of tax systems and the public subsidy of children. The remaining four sections investigate health, education, household structure and labor markets, and measurement issues in low-income countries, including the effect of technological change on transfers of wealth to and from children in India; women's and men's responses to the costs of medical care in Kenya; the effects of birth order and sex on educational attainment in Taiwan; wage returns to schooling in Indonesia and in Cote d'Ivoire; and the increasing prevalence of female-headed households and the correlates of gender differences in wages in Brazil.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226740874
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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How are human capital investments allocated between women and men? What are the returns to investments in women's nutrition, health care, education, mobility, and training? In thirteen wide-ranging and innovative empirical analyses, Investment in Women's Human Capital explores the nature of human capital distributions to women and their effect on outcomes within the family. Section I considers the experiences of high-income countries, examining the limitations of industrialization for the advancement of women; returns to secondary education for women; and state control of women's education and labor market productivity through the design of tax systems and the public subsidy of children. The remaining four sections investigate health, education, household structure and labor markets, and measurement issues in low-income countries, including the effect of technological change on transfers of wealth to and from children in India; women's and men's responses to the costs of medical care in Kenya; the effects of birth order and sex on educational attainment in Taiwan; wage returns to schooling in Indonesia and in Cote d'Ivoire; and the increasing prevalence of female-headed households and the correlates of gender differences in wages in Brazil.
Timing of Childbearing, Family Size and Economic Growth
Author: Murat F. Iyigun
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Category : Childbirth
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Category : Childbirth
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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