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Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data

Brainerd, Elizabeth - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade - sometimes rapidly - from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout this period, it is unclear whether this economic growth...

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Consumption of cotton cloth in India, 1795-1940

Roy, Tirthankar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Using data on the production and usage of cotton, the paper develops estimates for the production and consumption of cotton cloth in India during 1795-1940, and based on these numbers, revisits three issues central to interpretations of economic change in colonial India. These are: (a) trends in...

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Inference for VARs Identified with Sign Restrictions

Granziera, Eleonora; Lee, Mihye; Moon, Hyungsik Roger; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

There is a fast growing literature that partially identifies structural vector autoregressions (SVARs) by imposing sign restrictions on the responses of a subset of the endogenous variables to a particular structural shock (sign-restricted SVARs). To date, the methods that have been used are...

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A DSGE Model of China

Dai, Li; Minford, Patrick; Zhou, Peng - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We use available methods for testing macro models to evaluate a model of China over the period from Deng Xiaoping's reforms up until the crisis period. Bayesian ranking methods are heavily influenced by controversial priors on the degree of price/wage rigidity. When the overall models are tested...

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A DSGE Model of China

Dai, Li; Minford, Patrick; Zhou, Peng - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

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Evaluating An Estimated New Keynesian Small Open Economy Model

Adolfson, Malin; Laséen, Stefan; Lindé, Jesper; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper estimates and tests a new Keynesian small open economy model in the tradition of Christiano, Eichenbaum, and Evans (2005) and Smets and Wouters (2003) using Bayesian estimation techniques on Swedish data. To account for the switch to an inflation targeting regime in 1993 we allow for...

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Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India

Jayachandran, Seema; Kuziemko, Ilyana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the …

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Do Highly Educated Women Choose Smaller Families?

Hazan, Moshe; Zoabi, Hosny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Conventional wisdom suggests that in developed countries income and fertility are negatively correlated. We present new … evidence that between 2001 and 2009 the cross-sectional relationship between fertility and women's education in the U.S. is U … explaining the positive correlation between fertility and female labor supply along the educational gradient. In our model …

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More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe

Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …

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The Career Costs of Children

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Stevens, Katrien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and …-female wage gap as it evolves from labor market entry onward and the effect of pro-fertility policies. We show that a substantial … portion of the gender wage gap is explainable by realized and expected fertility and that the long-run effect of policies …

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