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Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Turan, Belgi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Young (2005) argues that HIV related population declines reinforced by the fertility response to the epidemic will lead to higher capital-labor ratios and to higher per capita incomes in the affected countries of Africa. Using household level data on fertility from South Africa and relying on...

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The Impact of Education on Fertility and Child Mortality: Do Fathers Really Matter Less Than Mothers?

Duflo, Esther; Breierova, Lucia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

This paper takes advantage of a massive school construction program that took place in Indonesia between 1973 and 1978 to estimate the effect of education on fertility and child mortality. Time and region varying exposure to the school construction program generates instrumental variables for...

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HIV and Fertility in Africa: First Evidence from Population Based Surveys

Juhn, Chinhui; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Turan, Belgi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

The historical pattern of the demographic transition suggests that fertility declines follow mortality declines, followed by a rise in human capital accumulation and economic growth. The HIV/AIDS epidemic threatens to reverse this path. A recent paper by Young (2005), however, suggests that...

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Long Run Health Impacts of Income Shocks: Wine and Phylloxera in 19th Century France

Duflo, Esther; Postel-Vinay, Gilles; Banerjee, Abhijit; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper provides estimates of the long-term effects on height and health of a large income shock experienced in early childhood. Phylloxera, an insect that attacks the roots of grape vines, destroyed 40% of French vineyards between 1863 and 1890, causing major income losses among wine growing...

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Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day

Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit V. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...

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Mortality Change, the Uncertainty Effect, and Retirement

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Weil, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

We examine the role of changing mortality in explaining the rise of retirement over the course of the 20th century. We construct a model in which individuals make labor/leisure choices over their lifetimes subject to uncertainty about their date of death. In an environment in which mortality is...

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Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Duflo, Esther; Kremer, Michael; Dupas, Pascaline - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls' dropout, pregnancy, and marriage but not sexually transmitted infection (STI). The government's HIV curriculum, which stresses abstinence until marriage, does not reduce pregnancy or STI. Both programs...

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AIDS, "Reversal" of the Demographic Transition and Economic Development: Evidence from Africa

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Using country- and region-level data, I investigate the effect of HIV/AIDS on fertility in Africa during 1985-2000. Results differ depending on the variation used and the estimation method. Between estimates that exploit cross-sectional variation suggest a positive significant effect of HIV/AIDS...

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Do Labor Market Policies Have Displacement Effects? Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Experiment

Crépon, Bruno; Duflo, Esther; Gurgand, Marc; Rathelot, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper reports the results from a randomized experiment designed to evaluate the direct and indirect (displacement) impacts of job placement assistance on the labor market outcomes of young, educated job seekers in France. We use a two-step design. In the first step, the proportions of job...

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Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy

Helpman, Elhanan; Redding, Stephen James; Itskhoki, Oleg - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

consistent with increasing inequality in every country, growth in residual wage inequality, rising unemployment, and reallocation … within and between industries. While the opening of trade yields welfare gains, unemployment and inequality within sectors … nonmonotonic effects on unemployment and inequality within sectors. As aggregate unemployment and inequality have within- and …

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