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Divorce and the cognitive achievement of children

Tartari, Melissa - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

Approximately four out of ten American children experience the divorce of their parents. This raises concern because … offspring of married parents. The belief that a two-parent family is the ideal environment for raising children is reflected in … interparental conflict adversely affects children, and such policies may prolong conflict-ridden marriages. The first goal of my …

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Online Appendix to "Demographic Change, Human Capital and Welfare"

Ludwig, Alexander; Schelkle, Thomas; Vogel, Edgar - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2011

This appendix of our paper, "Demographic Change, Human Capital and Welfare", contains further material that could not be included in the paper due to space limitations. It is organized as follows. Section A contains the formal equilibrium definition. Section B provides more results on the fit of...

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The Welfare Consequences of the NBA: Superstar Markets and Human Capital Accumulation

Menzly, Lior; Kumar, Krishna B. - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004

consumption good and while old also from sporting services and transfers made to their children. The consumption good is produced … high or low depending on whether the accountants can afford to send their children to school or not. For instance, a high …

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The Dynamics of Optimal Taxation when Human Capital is Endogenous

Kapicka, Marek - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

This paper characterizes the dynamics of Pareto efficient income taxes in a dynamic economy with human capital accumulation. I extend the tools and insights developed by Mirrlees (1971) into a dynamic framework. I follow Diamond (1998) by assuming that there are no income effects on labor...

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Life-Cyle Fertility Behavior and Human Capital Accumulation

Gayle, George-Levi; Miller, Robert A. - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

, time spent nurturing children affects utility, while time spent off the job in the past directly affects current utility …

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Death and Development

Lorentzen, Peter; McMillan, John; Wacziarg, Romain - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

Analyzing a variety of cross-national and sub-national data sources, we show that high adult mortality reduces economic growth by shortening time horizons. Higher adult mortality is associated with increased levels of risky behavior, higher fertility and lower investment in physical and human...

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Accounting for the Changing Life-Cycle Profile of Earnings

Manovskii, Iourii; Kambourov, Gueorgui - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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Estimating a General Equilibrium Model of Intersectoral Mobility with Aggregate Shocks

Lee, Donghoon; Wolpin, Kenneth - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004

A dynamic general equilibrium model of work, schooling, occupational and sectoral decisions is developed and estimated. The model is fit to data on life cycle employment, schooling, occupational and sectoral decisions, and on life cycle labor earnings, within and between cohorts observed in the...

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Occupational Specificity of Human Capital

Manovskii, Iourii; Kambourov, Gueorgui - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004

In this paper we document substantial returns to occupational tenure. Everything else being constant, ten years of occupational tenure are likely to increase wages by at least $19\%$. Moreover, we show that when occupational experience is taken into account, tenure with an industry or an...

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Backslanted X Fertility Dynamics and Macroeconomics

Maoz, Yishay D. - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

. Assuming that countries differ in the degree of utility substitution between consumption and rearing children is sufficient to …

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