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Friday the 13th: The Empirics of Bad Luck

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D. - 2014

We use the UK Labor Force survey to investigate whether the socio-economic outcomes of people born on the 13th day of the month, and of those born on Friday the 13th, differ from the outcomes of people born on more auspicious days. In many European countries, including the UK, such days are...

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Skill Premiums and the Supply of Young Workers in Germany

Glitz, Albrecht; Wissmann, Daniel - 2017

, we find that long-term demographic changes in the educational attainment of the native (West-)German population – in …

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Family Planning and Climate Change

Gerlagh, Reyer; Lupi, Veronica; Galeotti, Marzio - 2018

three-fourths are due to population growth. This striking evidence is not represented in the majority of climate … the interactions between climate change and population dynamics. We develop an analytical model of endogenous fertility …

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The German Local Population Database (GPOP), 1871 to 2019

Roesel, Felix - 2022

I present the first database of historical local population figures for all Germany. The German Local Population … Database (GPOP) includes total population in 1871, 1910, 1939, 1946, 1961, 1987, 1996, 2011, and 2019 for the universe of all …. For example, East and West Germany are heavily diverging in population since 1945; and the divide was not reversed but …

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Manpower Constraints and Corporate Policies

D'Acunto, Francesco; Weber, Michael; Yang, Shuyao - 2021

Manpower constraints are the pervasive lack of specialized high- and low-skill workers, irrespective of the wage firms might offer. For a panel of German firms, we show manpower-constrained firms have higher capacity utilization and longer backlog of orders (measured in months). They are more...

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How much do educational outcomes matter in OECD countries?

Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

projection parameters, school improvements falling within currently observed performance levels yield very large gains. The …

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Nineteenth Century Weight in the United States: Revaluating Net Nutrition during Economic Development

Carson, Scott A. - 2015

Heights and body mass index values (BMIs) are now well accepted measures that reflect net nutrition during economic development and institutional change. This study uses 19th century weights instead of BMIs to measure factors associated with current net nutrition. Across the weight distribution...

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Mexican and Hispanic Net Nutrition in the 19th Century American West

Carson, Scott A. - 2015

When traditional methods for measuring economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, heights and BMIs are now well accepted measurements that represent biological conditions during economic development. Weight, after controlling for height, is an alternative measure to BMI for current net...

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Statures, BMIs, and Weight: A Reassessment

Carson, Scott A. - 2013

Much has been written about the modern obesity epidemic, and historical BMIs are low compared to their modern counterparts. However, interpreting BMI variation is difficult because BMIs increase when weight increases or when stature decreases, and the two have different implications for human...

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Aging, the Great Moderation and Business-Cycle Volatility in a Life-Cycle Model

Heer, Burkhard; Rohrbacher, Stefan; Scharrer, Christian - 2014

According to empirical studies, the life cycle of labor supply volatility exhibits a U-shaped pattern. This may lead to the conclusion that demographic change induces a drop in output volatility. We present an overlapping generations model that replicates the empirically observed pattern and...

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