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Why do people have kids in developed societies? We propose an empirical test of two alternative theories - children as "consumptionʺ vs. "investmentʺ good. We use as a natural experiment the Italian pension reforms of the 90s that introduced a clear discontinuity in the treatment across...
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The aim of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth for 21 African countries over the period from 1970 to 2006, using recently developed panel cointegration and causality tests. The countries are divided into two groups:...
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and residences and an exclusively residential suburban area. The paper demonstrates that both segregation and regional … income inequality are negatively correlated with relative regional social mobility. In the model, segregation is driven by …-skilled workers. A larger productivity gap does not affect segregation, but causes higher income inequality and lower relative …
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, villages, and manors in 1871 Prussia. We study religion, literacy, fertility, and group segregation by location type (town … denomination, whereas towns are less segregated. Yet, we find relatively lower levels of segregation by literacy. Regression …
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formal sector a decade later, are subject to more severe ethnic segregation on the job and display less linguistic …
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sexist) majority group of customers. There exists a Nash equilibrium with full segregation in which a low-price firm serves …
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Immigrants are more likely to have conationals as colleagues, however the consequences of such workplace segregation is …
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social outcomes are not well understood. We develop a novel index of ethnic segregation that takes both ethnic and spatial …
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