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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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Published in:Journal of development economics 2016-03, Vol.119, p.48-66
Main Authors: Do, Quy-Toan, Levchenko, Andrei A., Raddatz, Claudio
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Studies
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