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The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States

Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United States. Regional exposure to technological change, as measured by specialization in routine task-intensive production and clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional...

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War and Women's Work: Evidence from the Conflict in Nepal

Menon, Nidhiya; van der Meulen Rodgers, Yana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper examines how Nepal’s 1996-2006 civil conflict affected women’s decisions to engage in employment. Using three waves of Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, we employ a difference-in-difference approach to identify the impact of war on women’s employment decisions. Results...

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Spatial aspects of the rise of nonmarital fertility across Europe since 1960: the role of states and regions in shaping patterns of change

Klüsener, Sebastian; Perelli-Harris, Brienna; Gassen, … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

This paper investigates the role of states and regions in shaping spatial patterns of non-marital fertility in Europe since 1960 using a dataset of 497 European subnational regions and smaller countries. Almost all regions registered substantial nonmarital fertility increases over the last 50...

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Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level

Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … Robinson (2001) was to address this last point by using settler mortality as an instrument for geography-induced endogenous … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …

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Contextualising demography: the significance of local clusters of fertility in Scotland

Boyle, Paul J.; Graham, E.; Feng, Z. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2007

This study links empirical analysis of geographical variations in fertility to ideas of contextualising demography. We examine whether there are statistically significant clusters of fertility in Scotland between 1981 and 2001, controlling for more general factors expected to influence...

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Institutional Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil

Naritomi, Joana; Soares, Rodrigo R.; Assunção, Juliano J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper analyzes the determinants of local institutions and distribution of political power within a constant 'macro-institutional' setting. We show that characteristics of Brazilian municipalities related to institutional quality and distribution of political power are partly inherited from...

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Genetic, Cultural and Geographical Distances

Giuliano, Paola; Spilimbergo, Antonio; Tonon, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

measures of geography within Europe, we show that i) geography explains both genetic distance and transportation costs between … European countries, and ii) genetic distance does not explain economic outcomes once we control for geography. We conclude that …

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Well-being across America

Oswald, Andrew J.; Wu, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper uses new Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data to provide the first estimates of well-being across the states of America. From this sample of 1.3 million US citizens, we analyze measures of life satisfaction and mental health. Adjusting for people's characteristics, states...

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Regional social contexts and individual fertility decisions: a multilevel analysis of first and second births in Western Germany

Hank, Karsten - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2001

In this paper, a multilevel approach is used to investigate whether and how regional social contexts influence first and second birth probabilities of women living in western Germany during the 1980s and 1990s. In the theoretical part it is argued that regional opportunity structures as well as...

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The differential influence of women´s residential district on the risk of entering first marriage and motherhood in Western Germany

Hank, Karsten - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2002

This article investigates the role of women´s residential district in the process of family formation in western Germany during the 1980s and 1990s. Our analysis of the transition to first marriage and motherhood is based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), which we merge with a rich...

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