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Entrepreneurial Innovation and Sustained Long-run Growth without Weak or Strong Scale Effects

Grossmann, Volker - CESifo - 2008

R&D-based growth theory suggests that a larger population size raises either the long-run rate of economic growth (“strong scale effect”) or the level of per capita income (“weak scale effect”), with far-reaching policy implications. However, for modern times there is little empirical...

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The Impact of Urbanization on CO2 Emissions: Evidence from Developing Countries

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - CESifo - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions in developing countries, taking into account the presence of heterogeneity in the sample of countries and testing for the stability of the estimated elasticities over time. The sample covers the period from 1975 through 2003 for...

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Town Twinning and German City Growth

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Oumer, Abdella - CESifo - 2014

After World War II, town twinning became popular, notably in Germany. This was mainly a reaction to the war experience, and it was aimed at creating renewed international understanding and co-operation between German cities and cities in other countries. The contacts created by town twinning...

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Does the European Marriage Pattern Explain Economic Growth

Dennison, Tracy; Ogilvie, Sheilagh - CESifo - 2013

This paper scrutinizes the recently postulated link between the European Marriage Pattern (EMP) and economic success. A metastudy of the historical demography literature shows that the EMP did not prevail throughout Europe, its three key components did not always coincide, and its more extreme...

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The Relevance of Amenities and Agglomeration for Dutch Housing Prices

Garretsen, Harry; Marlet, Gerard - CESifo - 2011

Dutch cities which combine a favourable location in terms of distance to work with a variety of urban amenities appear to be the most attractive locations for people to live. Relatively safe cities, offering a variety of history and culture events, as well as good restaurants have significantly...

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Three Family Policies to Reconcile Fertility and Labor Supply

Fenge, Robert; Stadler, Lisa - CESifo - 2014

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …

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Daddy Months

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2014

We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...

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Family Taxation, Fertility, and Horizontal Equity: A Political Economy Perspective

Balestrino, Alessandro - CESifo - 2012

whether i) the parents control their fertility or not, ii) they value their children or not. Second, it investigates the … all "relevant" senses identical should be treated identically); it turns out that under endogenous fertility, any winning … policy trivially satisfies horizontal equity, but if fertility is exogenous for some of (or all) the parents, horizontal …

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Employment Protection and Fertility: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform

Prifti, Ervin; Vuri, Daniela - CESifo - 2012

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of … positive and sizable effect on fertility decisions of Italian working women. This result is robust to a number of checks …

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Gender Power, Fertility, and Family Policy

Kemnitz, Alexander; Thum, Marcel - CESifo - 2012

show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for … overcome the fertility bias. …

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