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How the West 'Invented' Fertility Restriction

Voigtländer, Nico - 2011

Europeans restricted their fertility long before the Demographic Transition. By raising the marriage age of women and ensuring that a substantial proportion remained celibate, the "European Marriage Pattern" (EMP) reduced childbirths by up to one third between the 14th and 18th century. In a...

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Inequality and Schooling Responses to Globalization Forces : Lessons from History

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2006

primary schooling and literacy revolution in Europe. Under what conditions would we expect the same responses to globalization … abundant Europe and the high-wage, labor scarce New World. Those global forces contributed to a reduction in unskilled labor … scarcity in the New World and to a rise in unskilled labor scarcity in Europe. Thus, it contributed to rising inequality in …

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Human Capital, Unemployment, and Relative Wages in a Global Economy

Davis, Donald R. - 1997

global economy. It builds on the models of Davis (1997a, b) of trade between a flexible wage America and a rigid wage Europe …

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Technology, Unemployment, and Relative Wages in a Global Economy

Davis, Donald R. - 1996

the unskilled. By contrast, in Europe it is undoubtedly the rise and persistence of unemployment. Technology has been …

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Populism and the Economics of Globalization

Rodrik, Dani - 2017

history and economic theory both provide ample grounds for anticipating that advanced stages of economic globalization would … populist politicians highlight. The first has been predominant in Latin America, and the second in Europe. I argue that these … different reactions are related to the relative salience of different types of globalization shocks …

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Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, and Unmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian - 2005

Using Census and CPS data, we show that U.S.-born Mexican Americans who marry non-Mexicans are substantially more educated and English proficient, on average, than are Mexican Americans who marry co-ethnics (whether they be Mexican Americans or Mexican immigrants). In addition, the non-Mexican...

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The Economic Value of Cultural Diversity : Evidence from US Cities

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2004

What are the economic consequences to U.S. natives of the growing diversity of American cities? Is their productivity or utility affected by cultural diversity as measured by diversity of countries of birth of U.S. residents? We document in this paper a very robust correlation: US-born citizens...

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Implications of an Economic Theory of Conflict : Hindu-Muslim Violence in India

Mitra, Anirban - 2013

We model inter-group conflict driven by economic changes within groups. We show that if group incomes are low, increasing group incomes raises violence against that group, and lowers violence generated by it. We then apply the model to data on Hindu-Muslim violence in India. Our main result is...

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The Great Transition : Kuznets Facts for Family-Economists

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Marto, Ricardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The 20th century beheld a dramatic transformation of the family. Some Kuznets style facts regarding structural change in the family are presented. Over the course of the 20th century in the United States fertility declined, educational attainment waxed, housework fell, leisure increased, jobs...

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Coming out in America : AIDS, Politics, and Cultural Change

Fernández, Raquel - 2019

The last few decades witnessed a dramatic change in public opinion towards gay people. This paper studies the hypothesis that the AIDS epidemic was a shock that changed the incentive to "come out" and that the ensuing process of mobilization and endogenous political process led to cultural...

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