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Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2016

Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv)...

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Differential Fertility, Human Capital, and Development

Vogl, Tom - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Using micro-data from 48 developing countries, I document a recent reversal in the income-fertility relationship and its aggregate implications. Before 1960, children from larger families had richer parents and obtained more education. By century's end, both patterns had reversed. Consequently,...

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Gender and agricultural productivity in a surplus labor, traditional economy:empirical evidence from Nepal

Aly, Hassan Y.; Shields, Michael P. - In: Journal of Developing Areas 43 (2010) 2, pp. 111-124

In this paper, two approaches (labor efficiency and separate factors approach) and two production functions ( a ray-homothetic function and the Cobb-Douglas function), are used to estimate the productivity of female versus male farm laborers in the traditional agricultural economy of Nepal. The...

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Marital earnings premiums in Trinidad & Tobago:ethnicity and socioeconomic status

Olsen, Reed Neil; Coppin, Addington - In: Journal of Developing Areas 44 (2010) 1, pp. 201-227

This article employs a unique data set from 1993 with 7,063 working men and women from Trinidad and Tobago to examine the impact of ethnicity and socioeconomic status upon marital earnings premiums. It finds a significant marriage premium for both males and females. Ethnicity is found to play a...

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Social Security, Demographic Trends, and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence from the International Experience

Ehrlich, Isaac; Kim, Jinyoung - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

The worldwide problem with pay-as-you-go (PAYG) social security systems isn't just financial. This study indicates that these systems may have exerted adverse effects on key demographic factors, private savings, and long-term growth rates. Through a comprehensive endogenous-growth model where...

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A Dual Policy Paradox: Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labor-Scarce Economies

Williamson, Jeffrey Gale; Hatton, Timothy J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

Today's labor-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost two centuries? This paper seeks answers to this dual...

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The impact of remittance income on rural households in China

Snyder, Steve; Chern, Wen S. - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 1, pp. 38-57

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of remittance income on rural households in China. Design/methodology/approach – Using data from a large survey of farming households in three Chinese provinces, the impacts of remittances and other types of income on...

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Malaria: An early indicator of later disease and work level

Hong, Sok Chul - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 3, pp. 612-632

This study investigates the effect of early-life exposure to malaria on disease and work level in old age over the past one and a half centuries. Using longitudinal lifetime records of Union Army veterans, I first estimate that exposure to a malarial environment in early life (c.1840)...

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Endogenous Fertility, Mortality and Economic Growth: Can a Malthusian Framework Account for the Conflicting Historical Trends in Population?

Ehrlich, Isaac; Kim, Jinyoung - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

at a fixed wage-income level because population growth tends to outstrip real output growth. Dynamic equilibrium with … constant income and population is achieved through equilibrating adjustments in "positive checks" (mortality, starvation) and … economic stagnation with high fertility and mortality and constant population and income, as predicted by Malthus, but also for …

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Explaining Inequality the World Round: Cohort Size, Kuznets Curves, andOpenness

Williamson, Jeffrey Gale; Higgins, Matthew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

Klaus Deininger and Lyn Squire have recently produced an inequality data base for a panel of countries from the 1960s to the 1990s. We use these data to decompose the sources of inequality into three central parts: the demographic or cohort size effect; the so-called Kuznets Curve or demand...

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