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Gerlagh, Reyer - 2019

the interactions between climate change and population dynamics. We develop an analytical model of endogenous fertility …

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Time Variation in Lifecycle Consumption and Income

Aksoy, Yunus - 2020

We document systematic and significant time variation in US lifecycle non-durable consumption profiles. Consumption profiles have consistently become flatter: differences in consumption across generations have decreased. Pooling data across different periods to identify lifecycle profiles masks...

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Gender Norms and Income Misreporting within Households

Roth, Anja - 2019

We show that the discontinuity in the distribution of surveyed female income shares at the margin where a woman would outearn her partner is primarily driven by norm induced misreporting in surveys. We draw on unique Swiss data combining survey and administrative information for the same...

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Stimulant or Depressant? Resource-Related Income Shocks and Conflict

Gehring, Kai - 2019

We provide evidence about the mechanisms linking resource-related income shocks to conflict. Combining temporal variation in international drug prices with spatial variation in the suitability to produce opium, we show that higher drug prices reduce conflict over the 2002-2014 period in...

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Alternatives to Paying Child Benefit to the Rich : Means Testing or Higher Tax?

Apps, Patricia F. - 2020

Transferring public benefits to people in no need of them appears to be a waste of public money. Thus, there seems to be support for a move away from universal child benefits and towards means testing. This study presents a critique of this overly-simplistic view and proposes a very simple...

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Parental Resources and College Attendance : Evidence from Lottery Wins

Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W.; Goodman, Sarena; … - 2021

We examine U.S. children whose parents won the lottery to trace out the effect of financial resources on college attendance. The analysis leverages federal tax and financial aid records and substantial variation in win size and timing. While per-dollar effects are modest, the relationship is...

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The (Un)Importance of Inheritance

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Landaud, Fanny; … - 2022

Transfers from parents—either in the form of gifts or inheritances—have received much attention as a source of inequality. This paper uses a 19-year panel of administrative data for the population of Norway to examine the share of the Total Inflows available to an individual (defined as the...

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Fertility Cost, Intergenerational Labor Division, and Female Employment

Yu, Haiyue - 2019

China has set to increase the minimum retirement age, to ease the pressure from pension expenditure and the falling labor supply caused by the aging population. However, policy debates have so far neglected the crucial fact that families in China largely rely on retired grandparents for...

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Fertility Changes and Replacement Migration

Aksoy, Yunus - 2020

significant negative statistical relationship between 16 years lagged fertility and the rate of immigration in a panel of 23 … countries, which indicates that immigration compensates for low fertility in the labor market …

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Fertility and Modernity

Spolaore, Enrico - 2019

We investigate the determinants of the fertility decline in Europe from 1830 to 1970 using a newly constructed dataset … of linguistic distances between European regions. We find that the fertility decline resulted from a gradual diffusion of … new fertility behavior from French-speaking regions to the rest of Europe. We observe that societies with higher education …

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