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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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Population and Regulation
Mulligan, Casey B. - 2004
We present a model of efficient regulation along the lines of Demsetz (1967). In this model, setting up and running regulatory institutions takes a fixed cost, and therefore jurisdictions with larger populations affected by a given regulation are more likely to have them. Consistent with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468459
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The Relevance of Malthus for the Study of Mortality Today : Long-Run Influences on Health, Mortality, Labor Force Participation, and Population Growth
Fogel, Robert W. - 1994
This paper argues that the secular decline in mortality, which began during the eighteenth century, is still in progress and will probably continue for another century or more. The evolutionary perspective presented in this paper focuses not only on the environment, which from the standpoint of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474268
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Dynamics and Stagnation in the Malthusian Epoch
Ashraf, Quamrul - 2011
This paper examines the central hypothesis of the influential Malthusian theory, according to which improvements in the technological environment during the pre-industrial era had generated only temporary gains in income per capita, eventually leading to a larger, but not significantly richer,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461621
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Who Owns Children and Does it Matter?
Schoonbroodt, Alice - 2010
failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention. The …) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents … transfer floor is binding, fertility choices are inefficient. We show how this inefficiency relates to dynamic inefficiency in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462988
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Do Financial Incentives Affect Fertility?
Cohen, Alma - 2007
This paper investigates how fertility responds to changes in the price of a marginal child and in household income. We … construct a large, individual-level panel data set of married Israeli women during the period 1999-2005 that contains fertility … subsidy for infra-marginal children). We find a significant and positive price effect on fertility: the mean level of marginal …
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Population Growth and Carbon Emissions
Casey, Gregory - 2016
We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions …, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility … on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that changes in fertility patterns affect carbon emissions through three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455795
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Population Aging and Economic Growth : From Demographic Dividend to Demographic Drag?
Kotschy, Rainer; Bloom, David E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines the extent to which changes in working-age shares associated with population aging might slow economic growth in upcoming years. We first analyze the economic effects of changing working-age shares in a standard empirical growth model using country panel data from 1950-2015....
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The Impact of Demographics on Housing and Non-Housing Wealth in the United States
Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - 1994
Equity in housing is a major component of household wealth in the United States. Steady gains in housing prices over the last several decades have generated large potential gains in household wealth among homeowners. Mankiw and Weil (1989) and McFadden (1993b) have argued that the aging of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474266
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Demographic Factors and Real House Prices
Green, Richard K. - 1993
Real house prices are directly determined by the willingness of households to pay for (and willingness of builders to supply) a constant-quality house. Changes in the quantity of housing demanded will affect real prices only to the extent that the long-run housing supply schedule is positively...
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