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The biocultural origins of human capital formation
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2014
finding further indicates that the optimal level of fecundity was below the population median, lending credence to the …
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Economic conditions at birth, birth weight, ability, and the causal path to cardiovascular mortality
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Modin, Bitte - 2013
We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
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Be fruitful and multiply? : moderate fecundity and long-run reproductive success
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2014
the population median, suggesting that the forces of natural selection favored individuals with a lower level of fecundity …
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Hours and wages in the depression : British engineering, 1926-1938
Hart, Robert A. - 2000
On their intensive margins, firms in the British engineering industry adjusted to the severe falls in demand during the 1930s Depression by cutting hours of work. This provided an important means of reducing labour input and marginal labour costs, through movements from overtime to short-time...
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School closures, mortality, and human capital : evidence from the universe of closures during the 1918 Pandemic in Sweden
Dahl, Christian M.; Winther, Casper Hein; Jensen, Peter … - 2023
This study examines the impact of primary-school closures during the 1918 Pandemic in Sweden on mortality and long-term outcomes of school children. Using the universe of death certificates from 1914-1920 and newly-collected data on school closures across 2,100 districts, we conduct...
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Mass refugee inflow and long-run prosperity : lessons from the Greek population resettlement
Murard, Elie; Sakalli, Seyhun Orcan - 2018
effect of the first large-scale population resettlement in modern history. After the Greco-Turkish war of 1919-1922, 1 ….2 million Greek Orthodox were forcibly resettled from Turkey to Greece, increasing the Greek population by more than 20% within …
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Life expectancy and economic growth : the role of the demographic transition
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2009
transition improvements in life expectancy primarily increase population. Improvements in life expectancy do, however, reduce … population growth and foster human capital accumulation after the onset of the demographic transition. This implies that the … effect of life expectancy on population, human capital and income per capita is not the same before and after the demographic …
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The economics and politics of women's rights
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele; Voena, Alessandra - 2011
Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women and men is much larger in developing compared to developed countries. Historically, even in countries that are now rich women had few rights before economic development took...
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The economic and demographic transition, mortality, and comparative development
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2013
We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009708703
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Parenting with style : altruism and paternalism in intergenerational preference transmission
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2012
We construct a theory of intergenerational preference transmission that rationalizes the choice between alternative parenting styles (related to Baumrind 1967). Parents maximize an objective function that combines Beckerian and paternalistic altruism towards children. They can affect their...
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