Comparative Advantage, International Trade, and Fertility

We analyze theoretically and empirically the impact of comparative advantage in international trade on fertility. We build a model in which industries differ in the extent to which they use female relative to male labor, and countries are characterized by Ricardian comparative advantage in either fe...

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Main Authors: Do, Quy-Toan, Levchenko, Andrei A., Raddatz, Claudio
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23674