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Data from the 1911 Census of England and Wales are examined for evidence of family limitation early in marriage. It is …
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Data were extracted from the 1911 Irish manuscript census to study the regional variation in the extent and character of family limitation strategies in Ireland a century ago. Regression analysis of the data shows evidence of `spacing' in both urban and rural Ireland. Further analysis of the...
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-2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservables. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum …
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between corporate spreads and Treasury rates provide evidence on duration and find that the endogenous model explains the …
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This paper examines the depth and duration of the slump that invariably follows severe financial crises, which tend to … average over four years. Output falls an average of over 9 percent, although the duration of the downturn is considerably …
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This paper examines the innovative history of a number of UK firms using two large databases, looking for evidence consistent with the view that firms who innovate typically do so persistently. The first sample contains 3,304 firms who registered at least one patent in the United States during...
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This paper examines the longevity of entrants. We find size to be an important determinant of the chances of survival, this being particularly relevant to de novo entrants as compared to entry by established firms. Current size is also found to be a better predictor of failure than initial size....
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We use the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) to estimate a multiple state transition model with three possible … unobservable individual heterogeneity, duration dependence, lagged duration dependence and state dependence. Three main results are …-employed (push effect). Second, unemployed individuals are found to be more likely to become self-employed but the duration of their …
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This paper proposes a dynamic risk-based model that captures the high expected returns on value stocks relative to growth stocks, and the failure of the capital asset pricing model to explain these expected returns. To model the difference between value and growth stocks, we introduce a...
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end in sight. In this short paper we assess empirically what determines the duration of trade negotiations, focusing on …
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