Fertility, economic development, and remittances in post-communist times
This study investigates fertility responses to remittances across developed and developing countries in post-communist times. We first collected fertility, remittances, and income statistics over the 1995–2020 period and created a new vulnerability index that identifies less economically developed s...
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| description | This study investigates fertility responses to remittances across developed and developing countries in post-communist times. We first collected fertility, remittances, and income statistics over the 1995–2020 period and created a new vulnerability index that identifies less economically developed states with high fertility rates and dependent on remittances. We then examined the global fertility effects of remittances between 1995 and 2015 via Ordinary Least Squares, Fixed Effects, and Instrumental Variable estimation methods. The baseline regression results suggest that the relationship between remittances and fertility rates of remittances-receiving countries is generally inverse. We also found that the fertility-reducing power of remittances is heterogeneous worldwide. To illustrate the findings, we constructed two heat maps for 196 countries. The first one depicts the distribution of the vulnerability index, and the second one is dedicated to variations in the fertility effects of remittances across countries based on the vulnerability index. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-99f3381da0bc42a9852d3c61a40f90422025-01-06T14:32:05ZengTaylor & Francis GroupJournal of Maps1744-56472024-12-0120110.1080/17445647.2024.2391337Fertility, economic development, and remittances in post-communist timesAzizbek Tokhirov0Jonas Suchanek1Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, CzechiaInstitute of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, CzechiaThis study investigates fertility responses to remittances across developed and developing countries in post-communist times. We first collected fertility, remittances, and income statistics over the 1995–2020 period and created a new vulnerability index that identifies less economically developed states with high fertility rates and dependent on remittances. We then examined the global fertility effects of remittances between 1995 and 2015 via Ordinary Least Squares, Fixed Effects, and Instrumental Variable estimation methods. The baseline regression results suggest that the relationship between remittances and fertility rates of remittances-receiving countries is generally inverse. We also found that the fertility-reducing power of remittances is heterogeneous worldwide. To illustrate the findings, we constructed two heat maps for 196 countries. The first one depicts the distribution of the vulnerability index, and the second one is dedicated to variations in the fertility effects of remittances across countries based on the vulnerability index.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/17445647.2024.2391337Fertility rateinternational migrationremittanceseconomic development |
| spellingShingle | Azizbek Tokhirov Jonas Suchanek Fertility, economic development, and remittances in post-communist times Journal of Maps Fertility rate international migration remittances economic development |
| title | Fertility, economic development, and remittances in post-communist times |
| title_full | Fertility, economic development, and remittances in post-communist times |
| title_fullStr | Fertility, economic development, and remittances in post-communist times |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fertility, economic development, and remittances in post-communist times |
| title_short | Fertility, economic development, and remittances in post-communist times |
| title_sort | fertility economic development and remittances in post communist times |
| topic | Fertility rate international migration remittances economic development |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/17445647.2024.2391337 |
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