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When does improving health raise GDP?
Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Lester, Ashley; Weil, David N. - 2008
We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous health improvements on output per capita. Our simulation model allows for a direct effect of health on worker productivity, as well as indirect effects that run through schooling, the size and age-structure of the population, capital accumulation,...
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Maternal Addiction to Parental Leave
Engström, Per; Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Liang, Che-Yuan - 2006
The increased demand for a more equal parental sharing of the responsibilities for children has led many countries to reconstruct their parental leave systems so to provide stronger incentives for fathers to participate in childcare. Father's quotas are becoming widely spread across Europe. This...
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The half life of economic injustice
Miles, David - 2018
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Skills, labour costs and vertically differentiated industries : a general equilibrium analysis
Lutz, Stefan Heinz Hermann; Turrini, Alessandro - 2000
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Pricing policy under double market power : Madagascar and the international vanilla market
De Melo, Jaime; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Takacs, Wendy E. - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000942348
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Mothers' income recovery after childbearing
Angelov, Nikolay; Karimi, Arizo - 2012
This paper examines the time profile of the effect of fertility on female labour earnings with respect to time since … recovery of income 15 years after birth. Our IV estimates support this finding, but suggest a faster recovery of earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321131
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The Impact of the Female Advantage in Education on the Marriage Market
Rodríguez-González, Ana - 2021
In recent years, the traditional gender gap in educational attainment in favor of men has been reversed in many countries. This development may have far-reaching consequences for the family, challenging traditional patterns of union formation and potentially affecting marriage and fertility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208896
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Trading off or having it all? Completed fertility and mid-career earnings of Swedish men and women
Boschini, Anne; Håkanson, Christina; Rosén, Åsa; … - 2011
Earnings in mid-career and children are two fundamental outcomes of the life-choices of men and women. Both require …, completed fertility and mid-career earnings. We find an overall increasing inequality in career and family outcomes of men … developments for men and women, we find that within-family specialization, measured by the average spousal earnings contribution …
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Can financial incentives reduce the baby gap? Evidence from a reform in maternity leave benefits
Raute, Anna - 2018
In this paper, I assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby … significant effect of increased benefits on fertility, driven mainly by women at the middle and upper end of the earnings … distribution. Overall, the results suggest that earnings-dependent maternity leave benefits, which compensate women according to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012144214
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Economic Growth and Evolution : Parental Preferences for Quality and Quantity of Offspring
Collins, Jason - 2012
This paper presents a quantitative analysis of the model developed in Galor and Moav, Natural Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth (2002), in which agents vary genetically in their preference for quality and quantity of children. The simulation produces a pattern of income and population...
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