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Grandpa and the Snapper: the Wellbeing of the Elderly who Live with Children
Deaton, Angus; Stone, Arthur A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
fertility rates are higher, the elderly do not appear to have lower life evaluations when they live with children; such living …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969330
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New Evidence on the Causal Link Between the Quantity and Quality of Children
Angrist, Joshua; Lavy, Victor Chaim; Schlosser, Analia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
look at the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720737
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Contraception as Development? New Evidence from Family Planning in Colombia
Miller, Grant - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
countries reduce fertility or improve socio-economic outcomes. Despite suggestive associations, disagreement persists because … independently later in life. Although family planning explains only about 10% of Colombia%u2019s fertility decline, it appears to … have reduced the otherwise substantial costs of fertility control and may be among the most effective development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774729
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The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing Before Roe v Wade
Lang, Kevin; Weinstein, Russell - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Using data from three cycles of the National Survey of Family Growth, we investigate whether there were adverse consequences of teenage childbearing in the 1950s and 1960s, when most abortions were illegal, and access to the pill was limited. We find negative effects of teen motherhood on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010709587
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Institutional Adaptability and Economic Development: The Property Rights Revolution in Britain, 1700 to 1830
Richardson, Gary; Bogart, Dan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Adaptable property-rights institutions, we argue, foster economic development. The British example illustrates this point. Around 1700, Parliament established a forum where rights to land and resources could be reorganized. This venue enabled landholders and communities to take advantage of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720679
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General Education vs. Vocational Training: Evidence from an Economy in Transition
Pop-Eleches, Cristian; Malamud, Ofer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This paper examines the relative benefits of general education and vocational training in Romania, a country which experienced major technological and institutional change during its transition from Communism to a market economy. To avoid the bias caused by non-random selection, we exploit a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829841
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The Slow Decline of East Germany
Uhlig, Harald - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Fifteen years after German reunification, the facts about slow regional convergence have born out the prediction of Barro (1991), except that migration out of East Germany has not slowed down. I document that in particular the 18-29 year old are leaving East Germany, and that the emigration has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005089073
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The Real Value of China's Stock Market
Carpenter, Jennifer N.; Lu, Fangzhou; Whitelaw, Robert F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
China is the world’s largest investor and greatest contributor to global economic growth by wide margins, and will remain so for many years. The efficiency of its financial system in allocating capital to investment will be important to sustain this growth. This paper shows that China’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185010
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Book Translations as Idea Flows: The Effects of the Collapse of Communism on the Diffusion of Knowledge
Abramitzky, Ran; Sin, Isabelle - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We use book translations as a new measure of international idea flows and study the effects of Communism's collapse in Eastern Europe on these flows. Using novel data on 800,000 translations and difference-in-differences approaches, we show that while translations between Communist languages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207428
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Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia: Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Stolyarov, Dmitriy L.; Peter, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality decreased during the 2000-2005 economic recovery....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005660133