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Lags and leads in life satisfaction: a test of the baseline hypothesis

Clark, Andrew E.; Diener, Ed; Georgellis, Yannis; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

marriage, divorce, widowhood, birth of child, and layoff. However, there is little evidence of adaptation to unemployment. Men …

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Back to baseline in Britain: adaptation in the British household panel survey

Clark, Andrew E.; Georgellis, Yannis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

. Adaptation to marriage, divorce, birth of child and widowhood appears to be rapid and complete; this is not so for unemployment …

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Access to Childcare and Second Child Arrival in European Countries

Hippolyte d’Albis; Gobbi, Paula; Greulich, Angela - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2015

This paper shows that differences in fertility across European countries mainly emerge in the transition from the first …

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Family Policies: What Does The Standard Endogenous Fertility Model Tell Us?

BAUDIN, Thomas - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2009

Very few studies have explored the optimality properties of the "standard model" of fertility where parents must …

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Assessing education's contribution to productivity using firm-level evidence

LEBEDINSKI, Lara; VANDENBERGHE, Vincent - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013

There is plenty of individual-level evidence, based on the estimation of Mincerian equations, showing that better-educated individuals earn more. This is usually interpreted as a proof that education raises labour productivity. Some macroeconomists, analysing cross-country time series, also...

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Economic Growth

CROIX, David de la - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2014

Abstract: The first challenge for economic growth theory is to understand the transition from stagnation to growth at the time of the Industrial Revolution and in particular to identify the main factor(s) that triggered the take-off. Doing so also helps to understand why there are poor and rich...

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Religions, Fertility and Growth in South-East Asia

Croix, David de la; Delavallade, Clara - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2015

via the fertility/education channel. Using censuses from South-East Asia, we first estimate an empirical model of … fertility and show that having a religious affiliation significantly raises fertility. This effect is stronger for couples with … intermediate to high education levels. We next use these estimates to identify the parameters of a structural model of fertility …

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School participation in rural India

Dreze, Jean; Gandhi Kingdon, Geeta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

This paper presents an analysis of the determinant of school participation in rural north India, based on a recent household survey which includes detailed information on school characteristics. School participation especially among girls, responds to a wide range of variables, including...

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Childcare and Commitment within Households

GOBBI, Paula - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013

Parental time with children increases with the education of both the mother and the father. As the education of parents …

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Brain Drain, R&D-Cost Differentials and the Innovation Gap

MARIANI, Fabio - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2008

This paper aims at explaining why countries with comparable levels of education still experience notable differences in terms of R&D and innovation. High skilled migration, ultimately linked to differences in R&D costs, might be responsible for the persitence of such a gap. In fact, in a model...

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