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From Farmers to Merchants, Voluntary Conversions and Diaspora: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish History
Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
that endowed them with trading skills demanded all over the world. Fourth, the Jews generated a voluntary diaspora by … in the East. Fifth, the majority of world Jewry (about one million) lived in the Near East when the Mongol invasions in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136751
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Before the Great Divergence? Comparing the Yangzi Delta and the Netherlands at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
Li, Bozhong; Zanden, Jan Luiten Van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
The debate about the long-term economic development of China compared with Europe has taken a new turn with the publication of Kenneth Pomeranz’ book on ‘The Great Divergence’, in which he maintains that before the Industrial Revolution the most advanced parts of China (in particular the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677242
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Women Prefer Larger Governments: Growth, Structural Transformation and Government Size
Cavalcanti, Tiago; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
The increase in income per capita is accompanied, in virtually all countries, by two changes in the structure of the economy, namely an increase in the share of government spending in GDP and an increase in female labour force participation. This paper suggests that these two changes are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136708
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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
Gender-based discrimination is a pervasive and costly phenomenon. To a greater or lesser extent, all economies present … a gender wage gap, associated with lower female labour force participation rates and higher fertility. This paper … discrimination. The model is calibrated to mimic the performance of the U.S. economy, including the gender wage gap and relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504328
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A Dual Policy Paradox: Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labour-Scarce Economies?
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Today's labour-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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114287
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The New Stylized Facts About Income and Subjective Well-Being
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083711
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From Farmers to Merchants, Voluntary Conversions and Diaspora: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish History
Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
that endowed them with trading skills demanded all over the world. Fourth, the Jews generated a voluntary diaspora by … in the East. Fifth, the majority of world Jewry (about one million) lived in the Near East when the Mongol invasions in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005788962
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The Good, the Bad, and the Different: Can Gender Quotas Raise the Quality of Politicians?
Júlio, Paulo Fernando; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper models, for the first time, the relationship between gender quotas and the quality of elected public … public office determines the overall quality of politicians. Women suffer from gender discrimination in the labor market and … office. We demonstrate that a higher gender quota only decreases the overall quality of those elected when the rewards from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008554239
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The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men …. These declines have continued and a new gender gap is emerging—one with higher subjective well-being for men. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005036241
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Maternal Health and the Baby Boom
Albanesi, Stefania; Olivetti, Claudia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Abstract U.S. fertility rose from a low of 2.27 children for women born in 1908 to a peak of 3.21 children for women born in 1932. It dropped to a new low of 1.74 children for women born in 1949, before stabilizing for subsequent cohorts. We propose a novel explanation for this boom-bust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008554218