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The Output Cost of Gender Discrimination: A Model-Based Macroeconomic Estimate

Cavalcanti, Tiago; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

a gender wage gap, associated with lower female labour force participation rates and higher fertility. This paper … presents a growth model where saving, fertility and labour market participation are endogenously determined, and there is wage … through an increase in fertility. We find that for several countries a large fraction of the actual difference in output per …

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Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces

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

pill and women’s control over their own fertility; sharp changes in wage structure, including a rise in inequality and … increasingly important, emerging as a widely used step on the path to marriage. Out-of-wedlock fertility has also risen, consistent …

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The Demographic Transition: Causes and Consequences

Galor, Oded - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …

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Reason, Emotion and Information Processing in the Brain

Brocas, Isabelle; Carrillo, Juan D - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Building on evidence from neurobiology and neuroscience, we model the physiological limitations faced by individuals in the process of decision-making that starts with sensory perception and ends in action selection. The brain sets a neuronal threshold, observes whether the neuronal cell firing...

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Penalty Shoot-Outs: Before or After Extra Time?

Carrillo, Juan D - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper proposes a rule to determine the winner of a soccer match which is different from the traditional penalty shoot-outs at the end of extra time. We show that games can be more attractive if penalties are shot before extra time and the outcome counts only if the tie is preserved during...

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The Brain as a Hierarchical Organization

Brocas, Isabelle; Carrillo, Juan D - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We model the brain as a multi-agent organization. Based on recent neuroscience evidence, we assume that different systems of the brain have different time-horizons and different access to information. Introducing asymmetric information as a restriction on optimal choices generates endogenous...

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Equilibrium Allele Distribution in Trading Populations

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper derives the conditions under which fitness-reducing alleles can survive in a long-run stationary equilibrium for a trading population, extending the results in Saint-Paul (2002) for arbitrary systems of sexual reproduction.

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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in …

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Partner Choice and the Marital College Premium: Analyzing Marital Patterns Over Several Decades

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Salanié, Bernard; Weiss, Yoram - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

predictions, we find that the “marital college-plus premium” has increased for women but not for men. …

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Partial Insurance and Investments in Children

Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Consistent with the...

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