Democracy and fertility

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Autor(a) principal: Félix, Sónia
Data de Publicação: 2011
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/11841
Resumo: A Masters Thesis, presented as part of the requirements for the award of a Research Masters Degree in Economics from NOVA – School of Business and Economics
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spelling Democracy and fertilityDemocracyPolitical institutionsBirth ratesA Masters Thesis, presented as part of the requirements for the award of a Research Masters Degree in Economics from NOVA – School of Business and EconomicsThis research is an empirical assessment of the causal relationship between democracy and birth rates. The question under study is whether a country is more likely to experience fertility declines as it becomes more democratic, holding the other country's characteristics constant. This study goes beyond the existing literature to establish a causal relationship between democratization and fertility declines. To establish a causal relation we adopt two complementary strategies. The first is to include country fixed effects in the estimation and the second is to use an instrumental variables approach. The results suggest a robust negative causal relationship between democracy and birth rates. We interpret the effect of political rights on fertility as stemming from a decrease in overall societal risk, which diminishes as political institutions mature.NSBE - UNLTavares, JoséRUNFélix, Sónia20112011-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/11841enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-03-11T03:46:31Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/11841Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T03:20:34.615110Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Democracy and fertility
title Democracy and fertility
spellingShingle Democracy and fertility
Félix, Sónia
Democracy
Political institutions
Birth rates
title_short Democracy and fertility
title_full Democracy and fertility
title_fullStr Democracy and fertility
title_full_unstemmed Democracy and fertility
title_sort Democracy and fertility
author Félix, Sónia
author_facet Félix, Sónia
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Tavares, José
RUN
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Félix, Sónia
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Democracy
Political institutions
Birth rates
topic Democracy
Political institutions
Birth rates
description A Masters Thesis, presented as part of the requirements for the award of a Research Masters Degree in Economics from NOVA – School of Business and Economics
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