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From Farmers to Merchants, Voluntary Conversions and Diaspora: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish History

Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

the size of the Jewish population from 4.5 million to 1.2 million. Second, the Jewish farmers who invested in education … merchants the Jews invested even more in education---a pre-condition for the extensive mailing network and common court system … enforce the religious norm regarding education, and hence, voluntarily converted, exactly as it had happened centuries earlier. …

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The Output Cost of Gender Discrimination: A Model-Based Macroeconomic Estimate

Cavalcanti, Tiago; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Gender-based discrimination is a pervasive and costly phenomenon. To a greater or lesser extent, all economies present a gender wage gap, associated with lower female labour force participation rates and higher fertility. This paper presents a growth model where saving, fertility and labour...

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Equilibrium Allele Distribution in Trading Populations

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper derives the conditions under which fitness-reducing alleles can survive in a long-run stationary equilibrium for a trading population, extending the results in Saint-Paul (2002) for arbitrary systems of sexual reproduction.

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What Fundamentals Drive World Migration?

Hatton, Timothy; Williamson, Jeffery - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2002

Governments in the OECD note rising immigration with alarm and grapple with policies aimed at selecting certain migrants and keeping out others. Economists appear to be well armed to advise governments since they are responsible for an impressive literature that examines the characteristics of...

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Explaining US Immigration 1971-1998

Clark, Ximena; Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffery G. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2002

United States since the early 1970s. The model incorporates ratios to the US of source country income and education, and …

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The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. The paradox of women’s declining relative well-being...

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The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from an Historical Experiment

Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We exploit regional variation in suitability for cultivating potatoes, together with time variation arising from their introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our results show that the introduction of the...

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A Dual Policy Paradox: Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labour-Scarce Economies?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Today's labour-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost two centuries? This paper seeks answers to this...

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How Market Fragmentation Can Facilitate Collusion

Kühn, Kai-Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

When regulated markets are liberalized, economists always stress the benefits of fragmenting existing capacities among more firms. This is because oligopoly models typically imply that a larger number of firms generates stronger competition. I show in this paper that this intuition may fail...

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What Determines Immigrations' Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper asks whether history can shed light on the modern debate about immigration's labour market impact in high wage economies. It examines the relationship between migration and capital flows in the age of mass migration before 1914, the so-called first global century. It then assesses the...

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