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This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich nations' well-being; Great Britain and the US enter further down; France and Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for...
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This paper studies a famous unsolved puzzle in quantitative social science. Why do some nations report such high levels of mental well-being? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich countries' happiness; Britain and the US enter further down; some nations do unexpectedly...
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change and population aging.Following an intuition often attributed to Hicks (1932), I ask whether and howpopulation aging …
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model for the US economy. First, we establish that the net eect of a declinein population growth on the growth rate of per …
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Alike most of the Western world, the Danish fertility rate declined throughout the 20th century simultaneous to economic growth. This development, which conflicts with economic intuition, has been denoted the fertility paradox, and several studies have been devoted to resolve it. The present...
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This is a dataset of vital statistics and cohort component population estimates at a spatially-disaggregated level for … statistics. The population estimates were then derived by the cohort component method. These data provide novel intercensal … population estimates at the county level that will be beneficial for researchers working in historical demography, as well as in …
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