Essays about: "Rebecca Vitri"

Found 1 essay containing the words Rebecca Vitri.

  1. 1. Born in the wake of disaster : A quantitative study of the effect on total fertility rates of severe natural disasters between 1994 and 2012 in Indonesian provinces

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Hanna Riese; Rebecca Vitri; [2018]
    Keywords : fertility; natural disasters; total fertility rate; Indonesia;

    Abstract : Natural disasters have previously been found to have a positive effect on fertility due to incentives to use births to replace children lost and insure against increased risk. Using a simple demand framework for children, this paper contributes to the literature by re-examining this interaction under a new set of methodological conditions through the inclusion of a wider spectrum of cases than often used in previous works. READ MORE