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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

education, gained the comparative advantage and incentive to enter skilled occupations during the vast urbanization in the newly … merchants the Jews invested even more in education - a pre-condition for the extensive mailing network and common court system … religious norm regarding education, and hence, voluntarily converted, exactly as it had happened centuries earlier. …

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Social Change

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

is studied using an equilibrium-matching model. …

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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 Good, the Bad, and the Different: Can Gender Quotas Raise the Quality of Politicians?

Júlio, Paulo Fernando; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper models, for the first time, the relationship between gender quotas and the quality of elected public officials. In our economy, females and males can be either high or low-skill. The number of high-skill individuals elected for public office determines the overall quality of...

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The University Gender Gap in Australia: A Long-run Perspective

Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

According to the 1911 Census, the proportion female of those receiving university education was around 22%, growing to …

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Intergenerational Mobility and the Informative Content of Surnames

Güell, Maia; Mora, José V Rodríguez; Telmer, Chris - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We propose a new methodology for measuring intergenerational mobility in economic wellbeing. Our method is based on the joint distribution of surnames and economic outcomes. It circumvents the need for intergenerational panel data, a long-standing stumbling block for understanding mobility. A...

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Happiness Inequality in the United States

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing …

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Women Prefer Larger Governments: Growth, Structural Transformation and Government Size

Cavalcanti, Tiago; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The increase in income per capita is accompanied, in virtually all countries, by two changes in the structure of the economy, namely an increase in the share of government spending in GDP and an increase in female labour force participation. This paper suggests that these two changes are...

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Youth Emancipation and Perceived Job Insecurity of Parents and Children

Becker, Sascha O.; Bentolila, Samuel; Fernandes, Ana; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

The age at which children leave the parental home differs considerably across countries. In this paper we argue that lower job insecurity of parents and higher job insecurity of children delay emancipation. We provide aggregate evidence which supports this hypothesis for 12 European countries...

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