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The Gift of the Dying : The Tragedy of AIDS and the Welfare of Future African Generations
Young, Alwyn - 2004
orphaned children. On the other hand, widespread community infection lowers fertility, both directly, through a reduction in … attainment, the fertility effect dominates. The AIDS epidemic, on net, enhances the future per capita consumption possibilities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467696
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Population, Technology, and Growth : From the Malthusian Regime to the Demographic Transition and Beyond
Galor, Oded - 1998
This paper develops a unified model of growth, population, and technological progress that is consistent with long-term historical evidence. The economy endogenously evolves through three phases. In the Malthusian regime, population growth is positively related to the level of income per capita....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472002
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The Impact of Education on Fertility and Child Mortality : Do Fathers Really Matter Less Than Mothers?
Breierova, Lucia - 2004
This paper takes advantage of a massive school construction program that took place in Indonesia between 1973 and 1978 … to estimate the effect of education on fertility and child mortality. Time and region varying exposure to the school … between husband and wife. We show that female education is a stronger determinant of age at marriage and early fertility than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468180
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The Effects of Mortality on Fertility : Population Dynamics after a Natural Disaster
Nobles, Jenna - 2014
Understanding how mortality and fertility are linked is essential to the study of population dynamics. We investigate … the fertility response to an unanticipated mortality shock that resulted from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed … population-representative multilevel longitudinal data, we identify a behavioral fertility response to mortality exposure, both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458220
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Health, height, nutrition, and mortality : evidence on the "Antebellum Puzzle" from union army recruits in the middle of the nineteenth century
Haines, Michael R. (contributor) - 1998 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001594701
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Youth employment and joblessness in advanced countries
Blanchflower, David G. (contributor);  … - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001390808
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American Living Standards, 1888-1994 : Evidence From Consumer Expenditures
Costa, Dora L. - 2000
I use micro data on food and recreation expenditures from 1888 to 1994 to provide the first estimates of overall CPI bias prior to the 1970s and new estimates of bias since the 1970s and to reassess long-run growth rates. I find that CPI bias was -0.1 percentage points per year between 1888 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471117
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Childhood Mortality & Nutritional Status as Indicators of Standard of Living : Evidence from World War I Recruits in the United States
Haines, Michael R. - 2000
This paper examines variations in stature and the Body Mass Index (BMI) across space for the United States in 1917/18, using published data on the measurement of approximately 890,000 recruits for the American Army for World War I. It also connects those anthropometric measurements with an index...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471325
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American Living Standards : Evidence from Recreational Expenditures
Costa, Dora L. - 1999
I use consumer expenditure surveys from 1888-1890, 1917-1919, 1935-1936, 1972-1973, and 1991 to determine whether trends in real income per capita are consistent with trends in recreational budget shares and to establish trends in inequality in recreational expenditures. I find that changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471646
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The Economics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poor Countries
Miguel, Edward; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended health and living standards around the world. This article provides an interim overview of these effects, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Economists have explained how the pandemic is likely to have differential consequences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660017