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Unequal at Birth: A Long-Term Comparison of Income and Birth Weight
Costa, Dora L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999
implying that in the past health inequality was transmitted across generations. I also show that" children born at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830784
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Health and the Economy in the United States, from 1750 to the Present
Costa, Dora L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
I discuss the health transition in the United States, bringing new data to bear on health indicators, and investigating the changing relationship between health, income, and the environment. I argue that scientific advances played an outsize role and that health improvements were largest among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950664
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Understanding and Improving the Social Context of Well-Being
Helliwell, John F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The paper first attempts to demonstrate the fundamental importance of the social context. The related evidence is drawn from recent theoretical and empirical advances in the study of subjective well-being. Treating people's self-assessments of the quality of their lives as valid measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950986
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Under the Thumb of History? Political Institutions and the Scope for Action
Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper discusses the two leading views of history and political institutions. For some scholars, institutions are mainly products of historical logic, while for others, accidents, leaders, and decisions have a significant impact. We argue that while there is clear evidence that history...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951199
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Making the Most of Capital in the 21st Century
Lindert, Peter H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
historical movements in inequality. This essay ranks the promise of different paths that scholars can usefully follow from the … point to which his book has guided us. The main path to follow is the income inequality history so well paved by Piketty and …'s emphasis on wealth, capital, and the rate of return. Following the income route to better inequality predictions requires …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951213
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The Biocultural Origins of Human Capital Formation
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This research explores the biocultural origins of human capital formation. It presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity and thus predisposition towards investment in child quality was conducive for long-run reproductive success within the human species. Using an extensive genealogical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951237
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Education and Military Rivalry
Persson, Torsten; Aghion, Philippe; Rouzet, Dorothee - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Using data from the last 150 years in a small set of countries, and from the postwar period in a large set of countries, we show that large investments in state primary education systems tend to occur when countries face military rivals or threats from their neighbors. By contrast, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271422
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The Nature of Conflict
Galor, Oded; Arbatli, Cemal Eren; Ashraf, Quamrul H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
diversity on economic inequality within a society. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252653
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Russian Inequality on the Eve of Revolution
Lindert, Peter H.; Nafziger, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
of European Russia. In 1904, on the eve of military defeat and the 1905 Revolution, Russian income inequality was … middling by the standards of that era, and less severe than inequality has become today in such countries as China, the United … Russia might have shaped the now-revealed level of inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262790
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Labor Productivity in Britain and America During the Nineteenth Century
Broadberry, Stephen N.; Irwin, Douglas A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
A number of writers have recently questioned whether labor productivity or per capita incomes were ever higher in the United Kingdom than in the United States. We show that although the United States already had a substantial labor productivity lead in industry as early as 1840, especially in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025622