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Partnership Status and the Human Sex Ratio at Birth
Norberg, Karen - 2004
If two-parent care has different consequences for the reproductive success of sons and daughters, then natural selection may favor adjustment of the sex ratio at birth according to circumstances that forecast later family structure. In humans, this partnership status hypothesis predicts fewer...
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Cohort Crowding and Youth Labor Markets : A Cross-National Analysis
Korenman, Sanders - 1997
youth cohort size. Finally, due to recent declines in fertility, some European countries will see reductions in the size of …
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Immigration, Wages, and Compositional Amenities
Card, David - 2009
Economists are often puzzled by the stronger public opposition to immigration than trade, since the two policies have similar effects on wages. Unlike trade, however, immigration can alter the composition of the local population, imposing potential externalities on natives. While previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463128
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The Cost of Low Fertility in Europe
Bloom, David E. - 2009
We analyze the effect of fertility on income per capita with a particular focus on the experience of Europe. For … European countries with below-replacement fertility, the cost of continued low fertility will only be observed in the long run …. We show that in the short run, a fall in the fertility rate will lower the youth dependency ratio and increase the …
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From Empty Pews to Empty Cradles : Fertility Decline Among European Catholics
Berman, Eli - 2012
Catholic countries of Europe pose a demographic puzzle -fertility is unprecedentedly low (total fertility=1.3) despite …. We use differential declines in service provision --measured by nuns/capita-- to identify its effect on fertility …) has no effect for Protestants, but predicts fertility decline for Catholics. The data suggest that service provision and …
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The Effect of Demographic Factors on Age-Earnings Profiles
Freeman, Richard B. - 1979
The age-earnings profile of male workers is significantly influenced by the age composition of the workforce. When the number of young workers increased sharply in the 1970s, the profile "twisted" against them, apparently because younger and older male workers are imperfect substitutes in...
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Racial Disparity in COVID-19 Deaths : Seeking Economic Roots with Census data
McLaren, John - 2020
This note seeks the socioeconomic roots of racial disparities in COVID-19 mortality, using county-level mortality, economic, and demographic data from 3,140 counties. For all minorities, the minority's population share is strongly correlated with total COVID-19 deaths. For Hispanic/Latino and...
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Demographic Determinants of Testing Incidence and COVID-19 Infections in New York City Neighborhoods
Borjas, George J. - 2020
New York City is the hot spot of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. This paper merges information on the number of tests and the number of infections at the New York City zip code level with demographic and socioeconomic information from the decennial census and the American Community...
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ExtrapoLATE-ing : External Validity and Overidentification in the LATE Framework
Angrist, Joshua - 2010
This paper develops a covariate-based approach to the external validity of instrumental variables (IV) estimates. Assuming that differences in observed complier characteristics are what make IV estimates differ from one another and from parameters like the effect of treatment on the treated, we...
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Suburbanization, Demographic Change and the Consequences for School Finance
Figlio, David N. - 2010
The existing literature on the relationship between the share of elderly in a community and the support for local public education has led to mixed results to date. One potential reason behind this is that the share of elderly in a community is endogenous, and it is very difficult to disentangle...
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