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Malthus in the Bedroom : Birth Spacing as Birth Control in Pre-Transition England

Cinnirella, Francesco - 2016

We use duration models on a well-known historical dataset of more than 15,000 families and 60,000 births in England for the period 1540–1850 to show that the sampled families adjusted the timing of their births in accordance with the economic conditions as well as their stock of dependent...

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More Schooling, More Children? Compulsory Schooling and Fertility in Europe

Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole E.; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2021

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and …

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Malthus in the Bedroom : Birth Spacing as a Preventive Check Mechanism in Pre-Modern England

Cinnirella, Francesco; Klemp, Marc; Weisdorf, Jacob Louis - 2021

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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Expectations as Reference Points : Field Evidence from Experienced Subjects in a Competitive, High-Stakes Environment

Bartling, Björn - 2012

We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee's assignment of cards,...

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Market Segmentation in Two-Sided Markets : TV Rights for Premier League

Kind, Hans Jarle - 2013

This paper analyzes market segmentation in a two-sided market that consists of media consumers and advertisers. The analysis is motivated by a European Court of Justice Decision in October 2011, which allowed viewers to take advantage of international price differences and buy access to Premier...

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Migrating Football Players, Transfer Fees and Migration Controls

Verbon, Harrie A. A. - 2021

Since the famous Bosman ruling by the European Court of Justice in 1995 transfer fees for football players after moving … unrestricted market free migration from football players will be Pareto efficient under special circumstances only. This paper … shows that transfer fees can correct inefficient migration flows from small to large football leagues. Home-grown rules that …

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A Collective Household Model of Time Allocation - a Comparison of Native Dutch and Immigrant Households in the Netherlands

Klaveren, Chris van - 2008

Although the number of immigrant households in the Netherlands is substantial, the labor supply choices of this group are usually neglected in empirical studies because these households are usually under-sampled. We use a stratified sample of Turkish, Surinamese/Antillean and Dutch households...

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Birth Order and Delinquency : Evidence from Denmark and Florida

Breining, Sanni - 2017

Birth order has been found to have a surprisingly large influence on educational attainment, yet much less is known about the role of birth order on delinquency outcomes such as disciplinary problems in school, juvenile delinquency, and adult crime: outcomes that carry significant negative...

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Dissatisfied with Life, but Having a Good Day : Time-Use and Well-Being of the Unemployed

Knabe, Andreas - 2009

We apply the Day Reconstruction Method to compare unemployed and employed people with respect to their subjective assessment of emotional affects, differences in the composition and duration of activities during the course of a day, and their self-reported life satisfaction. Employed persons are...

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Structural Transformation, Marketization, and Household Production Around the World

Bridgman, Benjamin - 2015

We provide evidence on household and market production in 36 countries since 1960. On average the household sector accounts for almost half of total hours worked. As GDP per capita increases, the employment share of household production in total hours worked initially declines and then hardly...

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