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Health, Development, and the Demographic Transition

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

This paper provides a unified theory of the economic and demographic transition. The main mechanism is based on optimal decisions about fertility and time investments in heterogeneous types of human capital. These decisions depend on different dimensions of health, which themselves are...

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Income Redistribution and Disability Insurance

Hatchondo, Juan Carlos; Hopenhayn, Hugo - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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Longevity and Hours over the Lifetime: Data and Implications

Hazan, Moshe - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

Recent growth papers have utilized the Ben-Porath 1967 mechanism according to which prolonging the period in which individuals may receive returns on their investment spurs investment in human capital and cause growth. Implicitly, one implication of these models is that total labor input over...

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Valuing Lost Home Production of Dual Earner Households

House, Christopher; Laitner, John; Stolyarov, Dmitriy - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

Over the last fifty years, home production output may have changed significantly due to dramatic increases in women's time allocation to market work. It is important to quantify this change: to the extent that increases in GDP derive from new time allocation patterns, failure to measure...

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Divorce and the cognitive achievement of children

Tartari, Melissa - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

Approximately four out of ten American children experience the divorce of their parents. This raises concern because studies in sociology, developmental psychology, and economics show that offspring of divorced parents fare worse than offspring of married parents. The belief that a two-parent...

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The Demographic Transition and the Sexual Division of Labor

Falcão, Bruno; Soares, Rodrigo - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

views explain this trend through the effects of reduced fertility and/or increased women's wages. The paper suggests that …

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Learning-by-Doing or Habit Formation?

Kano, Takashi; Bouakez, Hafedh - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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Labor Supply and the Changing Household

Kahn, James - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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Online Appendix to Should the Social Security Trust Fund hold Equities? An Intergenerational Welfare Analysis

Bohn, Henning - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 1999

In a stochastic economy with overlapping generations, fiscal policy affects the allocation of aggregate risks. The paper shows how to compute the welfare effects of marginal policy changes that shift risk across cohorts, in general and for an application to social security equity investments. I...

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Wage Rigidity and Job Creation

Haefke, Christian; Sonntag, Marcus; Rens, Thijs van - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

cycle fluctuations in employment and unemployment. They argue that it is likely that wages are not adjusted as regularly as … wages, but wages of newly hired workers. Preliminary results show that wages for those workers are much more volatile than … aggregate wages, suggesting that other (real) frictions might be more important than wage stickiness …

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