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Malthus in the bedroom: Birth spacing as a preventive check mechanism in pre-modern England

Cinnirella, Francesco; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Weisdorf, Jacob L. - 2012

We question the received wisdom that birth limitation was absent among historical populations before the fertility …-run effect of living standards on birth spacing in the three centuries preceding England's fertility transition. While the effect …

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Productivity Shocks and Aggregate Fluctuations in an Estimated Endogenous Growth Model with Human Capital

Malley, James R. - 2011

Employing an endogenous growth model with human capital, this paper explores how productivity shocks in the goods and human capital producing sectors contribute to explaining aggregate fluctuations in output, consumption, investment and hours. Given the importance of accounting for both the...

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Rising to the Challenge : Bayesian Estimation and Forecasting Techniques for Macroeconomic Agent-Based Models

Delli Gatti, Domenico - 2019

We propose two novel methods to "bring ABMs to the data". First, we put forward a new Bayesian procedure to estimate the numerical values of ABM parameters that takes into account the time structure of simulated and observed time series. Second, we propose a method to forecast aggregate time...

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Reverse Bayesianism : Revising Beliefs in Light of Unforeseen Events

Becker, Christoph; Melkonyan, Tigran A.; Proto, Eugenio; … - 2021

Bayesian updating is the dominant theory of learning. However, the theory is silent about how individuals react to events that were previously unforeseeable or unforeseen. Building on a recently developed axiomatic framework to analyze such situations, we test if subjects update their beliefs...

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Bayesian Estimation of Multivariate Panel Probits with Higher-Order Network Interdependence and an Application to Firms' Global Market Participation in Guangdong

Baltagi, Badi H.; Egger, Peter; Kesina, Michaela - 2022

This paper proposes a Bayesian estimation framework for panel-data sets with binary dependent variables where a large number of cross-sectional units is observed over a short period of time, and cross-sectional units are interdependent in more than a single network domain. The latter provides...

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Men are from Mars, and Women Too : A Bayesian Meta-Analysis of Overconfidence Experiments

Bandiera, Oriana; Parekh, Nidhi; Petrongolo, Barbara; … - 2022

Gender differences in self-confidence could explain women’s under representation in high-income occupations and glass-ceiling effects. We draw lessons from the economic literature via a survey of experts and a Bayesian hierarchical model that aggregates experimental findings over the last...

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Bayesian Estimation of Epidemiological Models : Methods, Causality, and Policy Trade-Offs

Arias, Jonas; Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; … - 2021

We present a general framework for Bayesian estimation and causality assessment in epidemiological models. The key to our approach is the use of sequential Monte Carlo methods to evaluate the likelihood of a generic epidemiological model. Once we have the likelihood, we specify priors and rely...

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How Do Financial Crises Redistribute Risk?

Mitchener, Kris; Vossmeyer, Angela - 2023

We examine how financial crises redistribute risk, employing novel empirical methods and micro data from the largest financial crisis of the 20th century – the Great Depression. Using balance-sheet and systemic risk measures at the bank level, we build an econometric model with incidental...

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Pensions and Fertility : Micro-Economic Evidence

Danzer, Alexander M. - 2020

This study identifies the causal effect of pension generosity on women's fertility behavior. It capitalizes on Brazil … age by 10% in the short-run. Completed fertility declines by 1.3 children within 20 years after the reform, reducing the … contribution base of the Pay-As-You-Go pension system in the long-run. The fertility response is strongest at higher birth parities …

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Family Planning and Climate Change

Gerlagh, Reyer - 2019

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

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