K O&#x;rourke
K O&#x;rourke
"Ireland experienced dramatic levels of emigration in the century following the Famine of 1845-1849. The paper surveys the recent cliometric literature on post-Famine emigration and its effects on Irish living standards. The conclusions are...
M S Rendall,A Speare
M S Rendall
"We estimate here the extent of United States elderly poverty alleviation through living with family. These estimates are motivated by public-policy concern about the well-being of the elderly, and by the relevance of the process for fertil...
B Gustafsson
B Gustafsson
"This paper examines the quantitative poverty measurement literature. After describing the literature a number of issues in poverty research are discussed. It can be concluded that the framework for poverty assessments is not always fixed. ...
R F Schoeni
R F Schoeni
"When estimating earnings equations for men in the United States, a dichotomous variable for whether or not the man is currently married is often included as a regressor. The coefficient estimate for this variable is most usually large and ...
Fertility of rural China: effects of local family planning and health programs [0.03%]
中国的农村生育率：当地计划生育和卫生项目的效应分析
T P Schultz,Y Zeng
T P Schultz
"The rationing of births in China after the 1979 announcement of the 'one child family policy' has been held responsible for the rapid decrease in Chinese fertility, whereas other observers have noted that parallel fertility declines occurr...
An economic analysis of pregnancy resolution in Virginia: specific as to race and residence [0.03%]
弗吉尼亚州妊娠结局的经济学分析——按种族和居住地划分
G G Liu
G G Liu
This study analyses an economic model of pregnancy resolution; that is, a model of the choice by a pregnant woman to abort her fetus or carry it to term. This analysis, using an analytical model derived from the household utility framework,...
Comparative Study
Journal of population economics. 1995;8(3):253-64. DOI:10.1007/BF00185252 1995
R K Von Weizsacker
R K Von Weizsacker
"Starting from a simple, descriptive model of individual income, an explicit link between the age composition of a population and the personal distribution of incomes is established. Demographic effects on income inequality are derived. Nex...
C Seidl
C Seidl
"This paper investigates the impact of preferences for male offspring to female offspring upon the sex ratio of the population. Asymmetric procreation behaviour of this kind is modelled by assuming that a female's procreation ceases only af...
W Peters
W Peters
"A tax-transfer system deals with redistribution a PAYGmong generations and corrective taxation a PAYGt the same time. Since such a policy is a government's task, we take a normative approach and pose the question: Which tax-transfer system...
B Gustafsson,U Kjulin
B Gustafsson
"The use of time for child care and housework among Swedish families is investigated. We allow the effect of children on child care and housework to vary by age of the child and also by whether the child is cared for outside the home or not...