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Oil market VAR models have become the standard tool for understanding the evolution of the real price of oil and its impact in the macro economy. As this literature has expanded at a rapid pace, it has become increasingly difficult for mainstream economists to understand the differences between...
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there was no change in the overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in nonmarital … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior …
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We study the role of fertility adjustments for the labor market responsiveness of men and women. First, we use … longitudinal Danish register data and tax reforms from 2009 to provide new empirical evidence on asymmetric fertility adjustments … to tax changes of men and women. Second, we quantify the importance of these fertility adjustments for understanding the …
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the interactions between climate change and population dynamics. We develop an analytical model of endogenous fertility …
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We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using the 1972 UK Raising of the School-Leaving Age (RoSLA) legislation as a natural experiment that induced a sudden, large shift in the distribution of academic qualifications in...
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Marriage and divorce decisions are influenced by the institutional environment they are made in. One example is the social insurance system, which acts as a substitute for within-household insurance against economic shocks. In this paper, we quantify the importance of household-level insurance...
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I discuss the econometrics and the economics of past research on the effects of minimum wages on employment in the … some insights from both theory and past evidence that may be informative about the effects of high minimum wages, and try …
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Analyzing a homogenous household setting with endogenous fertility and endogenous labor supply, we demonstrate that … moving from joint taxation to individual taxation and adapting child benefits so as to keep fertility constant entails a …
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This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the … gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively … a model with endogenous fertility, female labour supply and childcare choices which fits these facts. There may exist …
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This paper explores the impact of credit market on the entrepreneurs and demand for credit in a credit constrained economy and the resultant impact on the capital flows. In standard trade models the capital flows across countries are explained as a result of the rate of return differentials due...
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