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Gender Roles and Technological Progress
Albanesi, Stefania; Olivetti, Claudia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Until the early decades of the 20th century, women spent more than 60% of their prime-age years either pregnant or nursing. Since then, the introduction of infant formula reduced women's comparative advantage in infant care, by providing an effective breast milk substitute. In addition, improved...
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The Union Wage Effect in Late Nineteenth Century Britain
Bailey, Roy E; Boyer, George; Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
This paper gives a historical dimension to the impact of trade unions on earnings by estimating the union wage effect in Britain between 1889-90 using data from the US Commissioner of Labour survey conducted at that time. The determinants of union status are also investigated in terms of profit...
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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...
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Poverty Traps, Distance and Diversity: The Migration Connection
Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Within-country ethnic diversity in high-wage immigrant nations is driven by long distance migration. This paper documents the migration-diversity connection for the first global century before 1914 and the second global century after 1950. It distinguishes between ethnic diversity among the...
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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 …
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Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
The British Industrial Revolution triggered a reversal in the social order whereby the landed elite was replaced by industrial capitalists rising from the middle classes as the economically dominant group. Many observers have linked this transformation to the contrast in values between a...
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Natural Selection and the Evolution of Life Expectancy
Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This research advances an evolutionary growth theory that captures the pattern of life expectancy in the process of development, shedding new light on the sources of the remarkable rise in life expectancy since the Agricultural Revolution. The theory suggests that social, economic and...
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Inequality and Schooling Responses to Globalization Forces: Lessons from History
Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
in today's world? This paper argues that modern debates about inequality and schooling responses to globalization should … abundant Europe and the high-wage, labour scarce New World. Those global forces contributed to a reduction in unskilled labour … scarcity in the New World and to a rise in unskilled labour scarcity in Europe. Thus, it contributed to rising inequality in …
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Colonial Rule, Apartheid and Natural Resources: Top Incomes in South Africa, 1903-2007
Alvaredo, Facundo; Atkinson, Anthony B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
There have been important studies of overall income inequality and of poverty in South Africa. In this paper, we approach the subject from a different direction: the extent and evolution of top incomes. We present estimates of the shares in total income of groups such as the top 1 per cent and...
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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...
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