Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20117 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 870
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this paper we study the decline in total fertility rates in the Czech Republic during the transition process. To identify transition-specific features of this decline we use a multiperiod model of birth process and apply it to the family and fertility survey of 1998. In a standard duration analysis setting the model allows for time-dependence of information sets, on which the decision about the next birth is made. It also enables to estimate probabilities of early exit from childbearing. In this work we find that the negative effect of transition on TFR is mostly translated through a sharply increased negative influence of higher education on fertility, and through the apparent lack of adequate childcare facilities.
Subjects: 
fertility decline
transition countries
semiparametric estimation
JEL: 
J00
J13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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