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Marrying Your Mom : Preference Transmission and Women's Labor and Education Choices

Fernandez, Raquel - 2002

This paper argues that the evolution of male preferences contributed to the dramatic increase in the proportion of working and educated women in the population over time. Male preferences evolved because some men experienced a different family model one in which their mother was skilled and/or...

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Family Economics Writ Large

Greenwood, Jeremy - 2017

Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv)...

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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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The microWELT-US microsimulation model for projections of the US labour force participation accounting for education and health : technical report

Amann, Johannes; Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; … - Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2021

This technical report presents the dynamic microsimulation model microWELT-US developed for US labour force projections … microsimulation model supports a comparative analysis of the effect of socio-demographic change on future labour force participation …, model parameters, the base scenario, and key simulation results comparing the USA to Germany, France, and Spain. …

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Why Does Democracy Need Education?

Glaeser, Edward - 2006

Across countries, education and democracy are highly correlated. We motivate empirically and then model a causal mechanism explaining this correlation. In our model, schooling teaches people to interact with others and raises the benefits of civic participation, including voting and organizing....

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Suffrage, Schooling, and Sorting in the Post-Bellum U.S. South

Naidu, Suresh - 2012

This paper estimates the political and economic effects of the 19th century disenfranchisement of black citizens in the U.S. South. Using adjacent county-pairs that straddle state boundaries, I examine the effect of voting restrictions on political competition, public goods, and factor markets....

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