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Partial insurance and investments in children

Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2015

partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …

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Human capital risk, contract enforcement, and the macroeconomy

Krebs, Tom; Kuhn, Moritz; Wright, Mark L. J. - 2015

due to the limited pledgeability of human capital. We show analytically that, consistent with the life insurance data, in … account for the life-cycle variation of life-insurance holdings, financial wealth, earnings, and consumption inequality … insurance. …

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The firing cost implications of alternative severance pay designs

Parsons, Donald O. - 2010

) severance insurance plans or (ii) severance savings plans is important; savings plans have no "firing cost" effects on employer … layoff decisions. The firing cost implications of insurance plan are sensitive to the types of job separations that qualify a …

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The wife's protector : a quantitative theory linking contraceptive technology with the decline in marriage

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kopecky, Karen A. - 2019

the 20th century. Some economic history is also presented. …

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Was the first public health campaign successful? : the tuberculosis movement and its effect on mortality

Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Olivares, … - 2017

The U.S. tuberculosis movement pioneered many of the strategies of modern public health campaigns. Dedicated to eradicating a specific disease, it was spearheaded by voluntary associations and supported by the sale of Christmas seals. Although remarkable in its scope and intensity, the...

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Does electricity drive structural transformation? : evidence from the United States

Gaggl, Paul; Gray, Rowena; Marinescu, Ioana; Morin, Miguel - 2020

Electricity is a general purpose technology and the catalyst for the second industrial revolution. What was its impact on the structure of employment? We use U.S. Census data from 1910 to 1940 and measure electrification with the length of higher-voltage electricity lines. Instrumenting for...

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Fertility and labor market responses to reductions in mortality

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar S.; … - 2018

We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to large declines in child and maternal mortality that occurred following a major medical innovation in the US. In response to the decline in child mortality, women delayed childbearing and had fewer children overall. Fewer...

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Public health efforts and the decline in urban mortality : reply to Cutler and Miller

Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Rees, Daniel I. - 2019

This is a rejoinder to a comment written by Cutler and Miller on our recent paper, "Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality" (IZA DP No. 11773), which reanalyzes data used by Cutler and Miller to investigate the determinants of the urban mortality decline from 1900 to 1936. Two...

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Public health efforts and the decline in urban mortality

Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Rees, Daniel I. - 2018

Using data on 25 major American cities for the period 1900-1940, we explore the effects of municipal-level public health efforts that were viewed as critical in the fight against food- and water-borne diseases. In addition to studying interventions such as treating sewage and setting strict...

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International migration in the long-run : positive selection, negative selection and policy

Hatton, Timothy J. (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Most labor scarce overseas countries moved decisively to restrict their immigration during the first third of the 20th century. This autarchic retreat from unrestricted and even publiclysubsidized immigration in the first global century before World War I to the quotas and bans introduced...

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