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Apuntes acerca de la población del territorio colombiano al momento de la Conquista

Mejía Cubillos, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper studies the population estimates for 1500 of the current territory of Colombia. It reviews the literature and analyzes critically the methods and sources used in the field. We conclude that there is no consensus on population estimates for the period, much less with respect to the...

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Gender Discrimination and Common Property Resources: a Model

Casari, Marco; Lisciandra, Maurizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

-cut implications for marriage strategies, migratory flows, and fertility rates. …

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Effect of Joint Custody Laws on Children's Future Labor Market Outcomes

Maiti, Abhradeep - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

their children in the event of divorce. Using 50 years of census data for the United States' population, I show that growing …

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The causal effect of family difficulties during childhood on adult labour market outcomes

Millemaci, Emanuele; Sciulli, Dario - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Applying a propensity score matching approach to UK National Child Development Study, we find that experiencing family difficulties during childhood determines a negative and long-lasting impact on adult employment probabilities and wage. Standard econometric techniques and simulation based...

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Sex selection and gender balance

Bhaskar, V - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We model sex selection and the equilibrium sex ratio, when parents care about their child's marriage prospects. With intrinsic son preference, selection results in a male-biased sex ratio. This is inefficient, due to a marriage market congestion externality. Medical innovations that facilitate...

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Some aspects regarding matrimonial relations in the city of Arad in the XVIIIth century

Ghita, Eugen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

contractual liabilities of the spouses, the status of the children, some problems related to wealth and dowry, I tried to mark out …

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Where there is a will: Fertility behavior and sex bias in large families

Jain, Tarun - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

reports that the sex ratio for children under six years of age is 927 girls per thousand boys, an outcome that has been … drive fertility behavior that generates sex-based differences in outcomes even when parents do not explicitly prefer boys … agricultural land. I confirm this theoretical prediction using panel data from rural households in India. This strategic fertility …

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THE WOMEN EMPLOYMENT IN ERITREA – REFLECTIONS FROM PRE AND POST-INDEPENDENCE PERIOD

Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

the labour markets: one, family ties and control of women is weakened due to absent men and increasing divorce rates. The …

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The impact of young motherhood on education, employment and marriage

Bradbury, Bruce - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The poor socio-economic outcomes of women who have their first child when young are well documented. However, the policy implications of this association depend upon the causal mechanisms that underlie it. Recent studies in the US and UK have used miscarriage as an instrument to identify the...

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Marriage and Divorce in a Model of Matching

Mumcu, Ayse; Saglam, Ismail - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

, legal cost of divorce, initial endowments, couple and single productivity parameters on the payoffs and marital status in …

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