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The biocultural origins of human capital formation

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2014

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The demographic transition : causes and consequences

Galor, Oded - 2011

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Family Cap Provisions and Changes in Births and Abortions

Joyce, Ted - 2004

As part of welfare reform efforts in the 1990s, twenty-three states implemented family caps, provisions that deny or reduce cash assistance to welfare recipients who have additional births. We use birth and abortion records from 24 states to estimate effects of family caps on birth and abortion...

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Welfare Reform and Non-Marital Fertility in the 1990s : Evidence from Birth Records

Joyce, Theodore - 2002

The 1996 Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act dramatically altered the economic incentive to bear children out-of-wedlock for economically disadvantaged women or couples most likely to avail themselves of welfare programs. We use data from vital statistics and a...

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Population growth and carbon emissions

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Population, Technology, and Growth : From the Malthusian Regime to the Demographic Transition and Beyond

Galor, Oded - 1998

This paper develops a unified model of growth, population, and technological progress that is consistent with long-term historical evidence. The economy endogenously evolves through three phases. In the Malthusian regime, population growth is positively related to the level of income per capita....

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Cohort Crowding and Youth Labor Markets : A Cross-National Analysis

Korenman, Sanders - 1997

youth cohort size. Finally, due to recent declines in fertility, some European countries will see reductions in the size of …

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The Gender Gap, Fertility, and Growth

Galor, Oded - 1993

This paper examines a novel mechanism linking fertility and growth. Household fertility is determined by relative wages … of women and men. Increasing women's wages reduces fertility by raising the cost of children relatively more than … household income. Lower fertility raises the level of capital per worker which in turn, since capital is more complementary to …

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Marriage, Motherhood, and Wages

Korenman, Sanders - 1990

We explore several problems in drawing causal inferences from cross-sectional relationships between marriage, motherhood, and wages. We find that heterogeneity leads to biased estimates of the "direct" effects of marriage and motherhood on wages (i.e., effects net of experience and tenure);...

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