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Effects of sex preference on investments in children‘s human capital, bequests and fertility are studied, with and without
sex selection, in a model based on parental altruism. Both pure sex preference, a feature of the parental utility function,
and indirect preference, which arises from gender-related differences in earnings opportunities, are examined. When there
is no gender control the impact of pure sex preference is seen in smaller consumption for daughters than for sons. However,
when gender control is exerted, sex preference raises the sex ratio and it is possible that sisters may, on average, consume
no less than their more numerous brothers. In an example of the model with specific functional forms, parents who practise
gender control have larger families than if sex selection techniques were unavailable. The effect is magnified if sons‘ earnings
opportunities are better than daughters‘.
JEL classification: D11, J13, J16
Received August 31, 1995 / Accepted May 2, 1996 相似文献
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This paper studies the equilibrium dynamics and indeterminacy of equilibria in an endogenous growth model with endogenous
fertility choice. We characterize the conditions that give rise to an unique equilibrium as well as multiple equilibria. Whenever
there exists a unique equilibrium, it will be globally determinate; when multiple equilibria arise, indeterminacy occurs.
In particular, we find that two equilibria occur – one is associated with high fertility and low growth, while the other is
associated with low fertility and high growth. A parameterized example is given to assess the empirical feasibility of our
results. The validity of the neo-Malthusian relation between fertility and growth is then re-examined. Finally, we study the
relation between growth and welfare and compare different balanced growth equilibria in terms of their lifetime-attained utility.
JEL classifications: O41, J13
Received December 11, 1995 / Accepted October 20, 1996 相似文献
3.
The why, when, and how of immigration amnesties 总被引:2,自引:1,他引:1
This paper deals with granting of an amnesty to illegal immigrants. We consider government behavior with respect to allocations
on limiting infiltration (border control) and apprehending infiltrators (internal control) and with respect to the granting
of amnesties, the timing of amnesties, and limitations on eligibility for those amnesties. We demonstrate the effects of government
actions on allocations and the flow of immigrants, and how the interactions between these factors combine to yield an optimal
amnesty policy. We also consider two extensions—intertemporal transfers of policing funds and “fuzziness” in declarations
regarding eligibility for an amnesty aimed at apprehending and deporting undesirables. 相似文献
4.
In this paper we evaluate the hypothesis that the over-representation of women amongst the low paid is of little importance
because women‘s earnings account for only a small proportion of total family income. Data from the General Household Survey
(GHS), together with attitudinal evidence from three cross-sectional data sources, indicate that women‘s earnings are in fact
an important and growing component of family income. The majority of the growth in the share of women‘s earnings occurs as
a result of changing family labour structures; women‘s earnings are playing an increasingly important role in keeping their
families out of poverty.
JEL classification: J16; J31.
Received April 9, 1996/Accepted August 22, 1996 相似文献
5.
Macunovich DJ 《Journal of population economics》1998,11(1):53-111
Focusing just on the fertility aspects of the Easterlin hypothesis, this paper offers a critical assessment – rather than
just a selective citation – of the extensive fertility literature generated by Easterlin, and a complete inventory of data
and methodologies in seventy-six published analyses. With an equal number of micro- and macro-level analyses using North American
data (twenty-two), the „track record” of the hypothesis is the same in both venues, with fifteen providing significant support
in each case. The literature suggests unequivocal support for the relativity of the income concept in fertility, but is less
clear regarding the source(s) of differences in material aspirations, and suggests that the observed relationship between
fertility and cohort size has varied across countries and time periods due to the effects of additional factors not included
in most models.
Received: 16 July 1996 / Accepted: 26 September 1997 相似文献
6.
We develop a neoclassical growth model having a realistic demographic structure. We identify the critical channel of impact to be the intertemporal consumption allocation decision through the “generational turnover term”. Expressing the aggregate dynamics as a generalization of the conventional neoclassical growth model provides important insights, enabling us to view in a unified way how alternative demographic structures impinge on the macrodynamic equilibrium. Using an approximation to the generational turnover term, we are able to characterize both the steady state and the local transitional dynamics. Through numerical simulations, we analyze the steady state as well as the transitional effects of structural and demographic changes. 相似文献
7.
There is an ambiguity in Amartya Sen’s capability approach as to what constitutes an individual’s resources, conversion factors
and valuable functionings. What we here call the “circularity problem” points to the fact that all three concepts seem to
be mutually endogenous and interdependent. To econometrically account for this entanglement we suggest a panel vector autoregression
approach. We analyze the intertemporal interplay of the above factors over a time horizon of 15 years using the BHPS data
set for Great Britain, measuring individual well-being in functionings space with a set of basic functionings, comprising
“being happy”, “being healthy”, “being nourished”, “moving about freely”, “being well-sheltered” and “having satisfying social
relations”. We find that there are indeed functionings that are resources for many other functionings (viz. “being happy”)
while other functionings (“being well-sheltered” and “having satisfying social relations”) are by and large independent, thus
shedding light on a facet of the capability approach that has been neglected so far. 相似文献
8.
Uncertainty and critical-level population principles 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
This paper analyzes variable-population social-evaluation principles in a framework where outcomes are uncertain. We provide
characterizations of expected-utility versions of critical-level generalized utilitarian rules. These principles evaluate
lotteries over possible states of the world on the basis of the sum of the expected values of differences between transformed
utility levels and a transformed critical level, conditional on the agents‘ being alive in the states under consideration.
Equivalently, the critical-level utilitarian value functions applied to weighted individual expected utilities can be employed.
Weights are determined by the anonymity axiom.
Received: 21 November 1996 / Accepted: 11 March 1997 相似文献
9.
The impact of migration on income for Swedish multi-adult households is examined using panel data pertaining to a sample
of stable household constellations during the period 1980–1990. In contrast to previous studies, data on household disposable
income is employed in estimating the income function. The empirical results indicate no significant effect on real disposable
income from migration. In addition, the hypothesis of no self-selection, or zero correlation between the errors in the decision
function and the income function, cannot be rejected.
Received: 10 May 1995 / Accepted: 14 August 1996 相似文献
10.
Parfit’s Repugnant Conclusion stipulates that under total utilitarianism, it might be optimal to choose increasing population size while consumption per capita goes to zero. We evaluate this claim within a canonical AK model with endogenous population size and a reduced form relationship between demographic and economic growth. First we characterize the optimal solution paths for any capital dilution function. Second, we prove that while the Repugnant Conclusion can never occur for realistic values of intertemporal substitution in the traditional linear dilution model, it does occur when population growth is linked to economic growth via an inverted U-shaped relationship. 相似文献
11.
Liu Jianguo Ouyang Zhiyun Tan Yingchun Yang Jian Zhang Heming 《Population and environment》1999,21(1):45-58
Human population size and growth have been recognized as important factors affecting biodiversity, but the impacts of population
structural changes on biodiversity are not clear. In this paper, we made the first attempt to link human population structural
changes with implications for biodiversity, using Wolong Nature Reserve (south-western China) for the endangered giant panda
as a case study. From 1982 to 1996, the labor force (20–59 years of age) in the reserve jumped by 59.76 percent, although
the total population size increased by only 14.65 percent. During the same time period, the sex ratio (males:females) of small
children (0–4 years of age) changed from 0.98∶1 to 1.20∶1, and the percentage of children receiving education beyond the elementary
school level increased from 14.04 to 27.47. The increase in labor force and the number of male-biased children could have
more negative impacts on the panda habitat, whereas improving school education could help more young people move out of the
reserve by going to college and finding jobs elsewhere and thus reduce destruction to the panda habitat. 相似文献
12.
In this paper, we consider two types of population policies observed in practice: birth limits and birth taxes. We find that
both achieve very similar equilibrium solutions if tax revenue finances lump-sum transfers. By reducing fertility and promoting
growth, both birth policies may achieve higher welfare than conventional education subsidies financed by income taxes. A birth
tax for education subsidies can achieve the first-best solution. The welfare gain of the first-best policy may be equivalent
to a massive 10–50% rise in income, depending on the degree of human capital externalities and the elasticity of intertemporal
substitution.
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13.
Michèle Cohen 《Mathematical Population Studies》2015,22(1):53-70
The classical expected utility model of decision under risk has been criticized from an experimental point of view (Allais’ paradox) as well as for its restrictive lack of explanatory power. The Rank-Dependent Expected Utility model answers some of these criticisms. The decision maker is characterized by two functions: a utility function on consequences measuring preferences over sure outcomes and a probability weighting function measuring the subjective weighting of probabilities. The model allows for more diversified types of behavior: it is consistent with the behavior revealed by the Allais paradox; the decision maker could dislike risk (prefer its expectation to any lottery) without necessarily avoiding any increase in risk; diminishing marginal utility may coexist with “weak” risk-seeking attitudes; decision makers with the same utility function may differ in their choices between lotteries when they have different probability weighting functions; furthermore, the same decision maker may have different, context-dependent, subjective beliefs on events. 相似文献
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Richard C. Barnett Joydeep Bhattacharya Mikko Puhakka 《Journal of population economics》2018,31(3):703-746
We directly compare two institutions, a family compact—a parent makes a transfer to her parent in anticipation of a possible future gift from her children—with a pay-as-you-go, public pension system, in a life cycle model with endogenous fertility wherein children are valued both as consumption and investment goods. Absent intragenerational heterogeneity, we show that a benevolent government has no welfare justification for introducing public pensions alongside thriving family compacts since the former is associated with inefficiently low fertility. This result hinges critically on a fiscal externality—the inability of middle age agents to internalize the impact of their fertility decisions on old-age transfers under a public pension system. With homogeneous agents, a strong-enough negative aggregate shock to middle-age incomes destroys all family compacts, and in such a setting, an optimal public pension system cannot enter. This suggests the raison d’être for social security must lie outside of its function as a pension system—specifically its redistributive function which emerges with heterogeneous agents. In a simple modification of our benchmark model—one that allows for idiosyncratic frictions to compact formation such as differences in infertility/mating status—a welfare-enhancing role for a public pension system emerges; such systems may flourish even when family compacts cannot. 相似文献
15.
Within a relatively short period of 30 years, public acceptance of voluntary childlessness has increased enormously in the
Netherlands. In this paper, we address two research questions, which we answer with data from 13 waves of the repeated cross-sectional
survey Cultural Change in the Netherlands (CCN, 1965–1996). First, we investigate to what extent the increasing permissiveness
is due to cohort replacement and to intra-cohort change. We find that between 1965 and 1980 the change is primarily due to
intra-cohort (period) effects, whereas cohort replacement has become more important since 1980. Second, we address the question
which social categories constitute the 10% of the population who do not accept voluntary childlessness. Church attendance—and
not religiosity or religious socialization—turns out to be the most important factor. Low levels of income and education also
negatively affect the acceptance of voluntary childless. 相似文献
16.
Kollmann R 《Journal of population economics》1997,10(1):87-95
A model of fertility choice is studied in which the utility of parents depends on how much they consume, on how many children
they have and on the consumption of their children. Hence, parents are altruistic towards their children, but in a more limited
sense than in the much discussed dynastic fertility model presented by Becker and Barro (1988). The concept of a (subgame
perfect) bequest equilibrium is used to solve the non-dynastic model considered here. The steady state birth rate is lower
in the non-dynastic model than in the Becker-Barro model. However, the key qualitative predictions concerning the dynamic
behavior of fertility are strikingly similar in both models. JEL classification: J13, J11, D90.
Received August 17, 1995/Accepted October 20, 1996 相似文献
17.
Child labour or school attendance? Evidence from Zambia 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
In this paper we investigate what affects school attendance and child labour in an LDC, using data for Zambia. Since the
data comes from a household survey with information on all household members it allows us to take account of unobserved household
effects by introducing household-specific effects in a logit model. The empirical analysis suggests that both economic and
sociological variables are important determinants for the choice between school attendance and child labour. In particular,
we find some support for the hypothesis that poverty forces households to keep their children away from school.
JEL classification: J24, I21, O15
Received May 20, 1996/Accepted January 2, 1997 相似文献
18.
Deborah Roempke Graefe Gordon F. De Jong Dee C. May 《Population research and policy review》2006,25(4):353-368
The inter- and intra-state migration of American families with work-disabled members is a neglected area of empirical study. Longitudinal migration and health status data from the 1996 Panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) are merged with state-level welfare policy indicators to investigate migration behavior under welfare reform’s emphasis on requiring work and encouraging reliance on social support networks. We use a nested discrete-choice event history model that incorporates the departure decision and interstate destination choice in a single model that tests the effects of state-level welfare policy and economic opportunity characteristics, with state fixed effects, plus family sociodemographic characteristics and social networks, as the basis for comparing migration of families with and without work disabilities. The results show that although families with disabilities and illnesses are less likely to migrate than other families generally, they are “pushed” to migrate if they live in states that do not exempt them from TANF activities requirements. Furthermore, in-migration is inhibited by stringent state welfare illness exemption rules and high state unemployment rates. Intrastate migration is more likely among families who received family and community social support, regardless of work-disability status. 相似文献
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Giulio D’Epifanio 《Social indicators research》2009,94(2):203-212
The methodological question concerns constructing a cardinal social index, in order to assess performances of social agents,
taking into account implicit political judgments. Based on the formal structure of a Choquet’s expected utility, index construction
demands quantification of levels of a meaningful ordinal indicator of overall performance. Contrasting common praxis of using
equidistant interval scale, level increments are formally interpreted as variations of social utility. The social scaling
is implicitly designed over an evaluative-framework, which is depicted using specifications from the policy-maker. In this
setting, criteria of policy are assumed, then intentions, requirements and priorities, perhaps of antagonistic stakeholders,
represented. Then, linear programming is used to search for admissible solutions which would provide a coherent index. Interactive
scaling is also delineated in order to elicit an institutional index, which is acknowledged by different social actors. 相似文献
20.
Amartya Sen 《Journal of population economics》1997,10(1):3-22
The people whose interests are most adversely affected by frequent bearing and rearing of children are young women. Social
changes that expand the decisional power of young women (such as expansion of female literacy, or enhancement of female employment
opportunity) can, thus, be major forces in the direction of reducing fertility rates. This “cooperative” route seems to act
more securely – and often much faster – than the use of “coercion” in reducing family size and birth rates. This essay examines
the comparative evidence from India and China on this subject as well as the interregional contrasts within India. JEL classification: J11, J13, O15
Received August 20, 1996/Accepted November 14, 1996 相似文献