Production in Collisions at

1990

2016

THREE ESSAYS ON THE EFFECTS OF CHILDBEARING ON ECONOMICS WELL-BEING AND HEALTH by ONUR ALTINDAĞ Adviser: Professor Theodore J. Joyce This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter is single-authored and documents the implications of gender preference in fertility on sibling sex composition, family size, and children’s health in Turkey. The article is initially published in Demography.1 The second chapter is co-authored with Alper Dinçer and David Jaeger, which investigates the effects of childbearing on parents’ labor supply in Turkey. Dr Dinçer acquired the data for the statistical analysis, contributed to the literature review, and critically reviewed the manuscript. Dr Jaeger offered mentoring and contributed to the editing of the manuscript. I designed the study framework, organized the original data files, conducted the statistical analysis, and co-authored the manuscript. The third chapter is co-authored with Theodore Joyce and Julie Reeder, which examines the...

2007

Te ex xt to os s p pa ar ra a D Di is sc cu us ss sã ão o 162

1990

Discussion Papers present results of country analysis or research that is circulated to encourage discussion and comment within the development community. To present these results with the least possible delay, the typescript of this paper has not been prepared in ...

1980

Many who are concerned about rapid population growth in developing countries have hoped and expected that economic development would be an effective contraceptive. If it is, then population policy can confine itself to the libertarian stance of subsidizing family-planning propaganda and contraceptive means. While experience has shown that family-planning programs achieve only very modest fertility reductions when large families are desired, the task of reducing desired family size might be left to policies aimed at economic development. By fostering education, industrialization, income growth, and female employment outside the home, general development policies may be a prompt and efficient way to cut fertility. But if economic development fails to bring prompt and sustained fertility reductions, developing countries will have more reason to consider tougher antinatal measures, such as Singapore's stiff birth disincentives of 1972-73 or, beyond them, compulsory sterilization. The social costs of these measures would have to be weighed against the perceived social-insurance benefits of faster fertility reduction as a means of lessening congestion and income inequality.

International Journal of Business, Economics, and Social Development

Family welfare is considered not going well since the Covid-19 pandemic, one of the factors for family welfare is fertility. Therefore, we conducted a study aimed at analyzing the impact of high fertility on family well-being. This research is descriptive quantitative with the number of respondents as many as twenty people. Data was obtained by survey method through Google Form where 20 respondents had to answer a list of structured questions (constructed questionnaire). The results showed that the number of children did not affect the welfare of the family.

IZA World of Labor, 2015

Journal of Political Economy, 1973

Chapter pages in book: (p. 91-119) RAND Corporation I. Introduction The past decade has brought a substantial increase in economic analyses of phenomena outside the traditional realm of economics. An already sizable portion of such effort has been directed toward the determinants of desired fertility and family size.' In this paper, I will first consider the degree to which pure economic theory can, or cannot, predict changes in completed fertility. The second, and the major emphasis of the study, is the way in which households produce the household commodity "child services."2 I argue that households can increase their production of child services either by increasing numbers of children (quantity) or by increasing the resource investment (quality) •in existing children. Further, quantity and quality are postulated to be substitutes in the household's production function for child services. After presenting an economic model of desired family size, emphasizing the substitutability of numbers of children and child quality, I will discuss several of the model's important parameters and then offer an empirical formulation based on data from U.S. counties. This paper is drawn from a more comprehensive study (De Tray 1972a) published by the RAND Corporation. I have benefited greatly from many people's comments and criticisms on earlier drafts, and would especially like to thank

2016

THREE ESSAYS ON FAMILY AND LABOR ECONOMICS BY FATMA ROMEH MOHAMED ALI AUGUST 2016 Committee Chair: Dr. Shiferaw Gurmu Major Department: Economics This dissertation consists of three distinct yet interrelated essays in family and labor Economics. In particular, I examine the impact of household demographic and socioeconomic characteristics on household decisions related to the investment in child human capital such as fertility, child health and child labor. The first chapter examines the impact of women’s education on household fertility decision. I use the change in the length of primary schooling in Egypt in 1988 to extract an exogenous variation in female education using a nonparametric regression discontinuity design. My analysis shows that female education significantly reduces the number of children born per woman. The reduction in fertility seems to result from delaying maternal age rather than changing women’s fertility preferences. I also provide evidence that female educat...

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000