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Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across demographic groups and countries. While divorce rates have risen over the past 150 years, they have been falling for the past quarter century. Marriage rates have also been falling,...

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Luddites and the Demographic Transition

O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Rahman, Ahmed; Taylor, Alan M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Technological change was unskilled-labor-biased during the early Industrial Revolution, but is skill-biased today. This is not embedded in extant unified growth models. We develop a model which can endogenously account for these facts, where factor bias reflects profit maximizing decisions by...

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Regional Growth in Japan

Shioji, Etsuro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

paper investigates the possibility that this discrepancy is explained by the effects of migration on population composition …

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Trade, Knowledge, and the Industrial Revolution

O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Rahman, Ahmed; Taylor, Alan M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Technological change was unskilled-labour-biased during the early Industrial Revolution of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, but is skill-biased today. This fact is not embedded in extant unified growth models. We develop a model of the transition to sustained economic growth...

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The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from an Historical Experiment

Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our … results show that the introduction of the potato was responsible for a significant portion of the increase in population and …

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The Biocultural Origins of Human Capital Formation

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

finding further indicates that the optimal level of fecundity was below the population median, lending credence to the …

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The Macroeconomics of Shareholder Pressure

Thesmar, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

are derived: first, temporary population changes have long lasting effects. Second, small technology improvements may lead …

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Does Fertility Respond to Financial Incentives?

Laroque, Guy; Salanié, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household level. We put forward an identification strategy that relies on the fact that variation of wages induces variation in benefits and tax credits among 'comparable' households. We...

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The Ethical Foundations of Population Policies

Dasgupta, Partha - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1984

of future population size. The essay begins with a summary of welfare economic theory as it pertains to situations where … population size is not subject to choice, and notes that a symmetry (or anonymity) axiom on social welfare functions has almost … invariably been invoked in the theory. It then summarizes optimum population theory and emphasizes that the existing theory …

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Size Really Doesn't Matter: In Search of a National Scale Effect

Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

link the population of a country to a host of economic and social phenomena. Using both graphical and statistical …

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