Perception of HIV risk and the quantity and quality of children: The case of rural Malawi [0.03%]
艾滋风险知觉与子女数量和质量——马拉维农村地区的例子
Ruben Castro,Jere R Behrman,Hans-Peter Kohler et al.
Ruben Castro et al.
The empirical literature on the impact of HIV on the quality (Q) and quantity (N) of children provides limited and somewhat mixed evidence. This study introduces individual HIV risk perceptions, as a predictor of mortality, into a Q-N inves...
Daniel S Hamermesh,Stephen J Trejo
Daniel S Hamermesh
Sharp differences in time use by nativity emerge when activities are distinguished by incidence and intensity in recent U.S. data. A model with daily fixed costs for assimilating activities predicts immigrants are less likely than natives t...
Heinrich Hock,David N Weil
Heinrich Hock
We examine the effects of population aging due to declining fertility and rising elderly life expectancy on consumption possibilities in the presence of intergenerational transfers. Our analysis is based on a highly tractable continuous-tim...
Dietrich Vollrath
Dietrich Vollrath
A salient feature of developing economies is the coexistence of a modern commercial sector alongside a traditional subsistence sector-the dual economy. The apparent differences in productivity between sectors imply substantial losses in agg...
Pinka Chatterji,Sara Markowitz,Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Pinka Chatterji
This study uses data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study on Early Child Care to examine the effects of maternal employment on maternal mental and overall health, self-reported parenting stress, and parent...
Klaus Prettner
Klaus Prettner
We investigate the consequences of population aging for long-run economic growth perspectives. Our framework incorporates endogenous growth models and semi-endogenous growth models as special cases. We show that (1) increases in longevity h...
Ryan D Edwards
Ryan D Edwards
A considerable amount of uncertainty surrounds the length of human life. The standard deviation in adult life span is about 15 years in the U.S., and theory and evidence suggest it is costly. I calibrate a utility-theoretic model of prefere...
R A Pecchenino,K R Utendorf
R A Pecchenino