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Did the Black Death Cause Economic Development by 'Inventing' Fertility Restriction?
Edwards, Jeremy - 2018
unmarried women, thereby delaying female marriage, lowering fertility, and unleashing economic growth. We show that this …
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What Explains Fertility? Evidence from Italian Pension Reforms
Billari, Francesco C.; Galasso, Vincenzo - 2021
predicts lower future pensions to reduce fertility, while the 'old-age security' to increase it. Our empirical analysis … identifies a clear and robust positive effect of less generous future pensions on post-reform fertility. These findings are … consistent with 'old-age security' even for contemporary fertility …
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Malthus and the Industrial Revolution : Evidence from a Time-Varying VAR
Rathke, Alexander - 2014
literature we find strong effects of income on mortality after the 1750s …
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Measurement of Economic Welfare Risk and Resilience of the Philippine Regions
Yonson, Rio - 2018
questions: 1) How much asset and welfare risks does each region in the Philippines face from riverine flood disasters? 2) How … resilience to riverine flood disasters and what will be their measured benefit? We study the 18 regions of the Philippines to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919003
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Firm Export Survival : Micro-Evidence from the Philippines
Pelkmans-Balaoing, Annette O. - 2017
This paper explores firms' export dynamics in emerging economies where local firms face stiff foreign competition, both at home and abroad, and thus compelled to choose the level of quality in which to export. We develop and test a model of vertical product differentiation where the link between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963749
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Public Debt Sustainability and Defaults
Guillard, Michel - 2017
We offer a new methodology for the assessment of public debt sustainability in a stochastic economy when sovereign default taken into account. The default threshold differs from the no-Ponzi condition and depends on the post-default debt recovery rule. We distinguish sustainability and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950605
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The Greek Debt Restructuring : An Autopsy
Zettelmeyer, Jeromin - 2013
The Greek debt restructuring of 2012 stands out in the history of sovereign defaults. It achieved very large debt relief – over 50 per cent of 2012 GDP – with minimal financial disruption, using a combination of new legal techniques, exceptionally large cash incentives, and official sector...
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Biological Well-Being in Late 19th Century Philippines
Bassino, Jean-Pascal; Dovis, Marion; Komlos, John - 2021
time. The low biological standard of living observed in late 19th century Philippines was not due to the tropical disease …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315539
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Temptation in Vote-Selling : Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Philippines
Hicken, Allen; Leider, Stephen; Ravanilla, Nico; Yang, Dean - 2021
-vote-selling intervention in the Philippines. We model selling one’s vote as a temptation good: it creates positive utility for the future self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315594
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Morbidity, Mortality, Health Expenditures and Annuitization
Tang, Kam Ki - 2010
In this paper we explore the implication of a morbidity risk for the relationship between longevity and annuitization. We divide old-age life into two periods with uncertain survival from the end of the first to the end of the second. We show that a rise in the survival rate causes different...
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