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Social Security and Retirement Around the World : Historical Trends in Mortality and Health, Employment, and Disability Insurance Participation and Reforms - Introduction and Summa...

Milligan, Kevin S. - 2011

the labor force participation of younger persons in twelve countries. We found no evidence that increasing the employment … of older persons will reduce the employment opportunities of youth and no evidence that increasing the employment of … employment circumstances of older workers. We find that these "exogenous" reforms can have a very large effect on the labor force …

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Saving and growth : evidence from micro data

Paxson, Christina H. - In: European economic review : EER 40 (1996) 2, pp. 255-288

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Personal retirement saving programs and asset accumulation : reconciling the evidence

Poterba, James M.; Venti, Steven F.; Wise, David A. - In: Frontiers in the economics of aging, (pp. 23-106). 1998

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Implications of rising personal retirement saving

Poterba, James M.; Venti, Steven F.; Wise, David A. - In: Frontiers in the economics of aging, (pp. 125-167). 1998

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The taxation of pensions : a shelter can become a trap

Shoven, John B.; Wise, David A. - In: Frontiers in the economics of aging, (pp. 173-211). 1998

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Health, income, and inequality over the life cycle

Deaton, Angus; Paxson, Christina H. - In: Frontiers in the economics of aging, (pp. 431-457). 1998

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The Urban Mortality Transition in the United States, 1800-1940

Haines, Michael R. - 2011

In the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries, there was a substantial mortality 'penalty' to living in urban places. This circumstance was shared with other nations. By around 1940, this penalty had been largely eliminated, and it was healthier, in many cases, to reside in the city...

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Childhood Mortality & Nutritional Status as Indicators of Standard of Living : Evidence from World War I Recruits in the United States

Haines, Michael R. - 2014

This paper examines variations in stature and the Body Mass Index (BMI) across space for the United States in 1917/18, using published data on the measurement of approximately 890,000 recruits for the American Army for World War I. It also connects those anthropometric measurements with an index...

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The Puzzle of the Antebellum Fertility Decline in the United States : New Evidence and Reconsideration

Haines, Michael R. - 2007

All nations that can be characterized as developed have undergone the demographic transition from high to low levels of fertility and mortality. Most presently developed nations began their fertility transitions in the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries. The United States was an...

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Railroads and Local Economic Development : The United States in the 1850s

Haines, Michael R. - 2006

We use county and individual-level data from 1850 and 1860 to examine the economic impact of gaining access to a railroad. Previous studies have found that rail access was positively correlated with the value of agricultural land at a point in time, and have interpreted this correlation as...

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