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The Gendered Impacts of Perceived Skin Tone : Evidence from African-American Siblings in 1870–1940
Abramitzky, Ran; Conway, Jacob; Mill, Roy; Stein, Luke - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study differences in economic outcomes by perceived skin tone among African Americans using full-count U.S. decennial census data from the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Comparing children coded as "Black" or "Mulatto" by census enumerators and linking these children across population...
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Africa's Lagging Demographic Transition : Evidence from Exogenous Impacts of Malaria Ecology and Agricultural Technology
Conley, Dalton - 2007
Much of Africa has not yet gone through a "demographic transition" to reduced mortality and fertility rates. The fact … that the continent's countries remain mired in a Malthusian crisis of high mortality, high fertility, and rapid population …, econometric estimation is complicated by endogeneity among fertility and other variables of interest. We attempt to improve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465764
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Effects of Restrictive Abortion Legislation on Cohort Mortality Evidence from 19th Century Law Variation
Lahey, Joanna; Wanamaker, Marianne H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
outcomes. We generalize a model of fertility, highlighting assumptions under which these abortion predictions can be reversed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334419
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Exploring the Racial Gap in Infant Mortality Rates, 1920-1970
Collins, William J. - 2002
This paper examines the racial gap in infant mortality rates from 1920 to 1970. Using state-level panel data with information on income, urbanization, women's education, and physicians per capita, we can account for a large portion of the racial gap in infant mortality rates between 1920 and...
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The Economics of Women's Rights
Tertilt, Michele; Doepke, Matthias; Montenbruck, Laura; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Two centuries ago, in most countries around the world, women were unable to vote, had no say over their own children or property, and could not obtain a divorce. Women have gradually gained rights in many areas of life, and this legal expansion has been closely intertwined with economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462666
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The Old Age Security Hypothesis and Population Growth
Willis, Robert J. - 1979
developing countries. This paper presents a theoretical model which integrates micro-level decision making about fertility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478776
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Efficiency with Endogenous Population Growth
Golosov, Mikhail - 2004
who are not born. We show how these concepts relate to the notion of Pareto-efficiency when fertility is exogenous. We …
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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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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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Causal Relationships between Infant Mortality and Fertility in Developedand Less Developed Countries
Yamada, Tadashi - 1984
fertility rate-- using time series methodology. I believe that I have shown that infant mortality and fertility are not … an increase in per capita real income triggers a subsequent decline in fertility.This dynamic nexus between changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477558