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The Impact of the Prehistoric Out of Africa Migration on Cultural Diversity

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Wainstock, Daniel C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Evidence suggests that the prehistoric Out of Africa Migration has impacted the degree of intra-population genetic and … phenotypic diversity across the globe. This paper provides the first evidence that this migration has shaped cultural diversity …, phenotypic, and phonemic traits along the Out of Africa migration routes, setting conditions for the emergence and proliferation …

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The Power of the Family

Alesina, Alberto - 2007

The structure of family relationships influences economic behavior and attitudes. We define our measure of family ties … using individual responses from the World Value Survey regarding the role of the family and the love and respect that … children need to have for their parents for over 70 countries. We show that strong family ties imply more reliance on the …

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Health Insurance and the Boomerang Generation : Did the 2010 ACA Dependent Care Provision affect Geographic Mobility and Living Arrangements among Young Adults?

Chatterji, Pinka - 2017

We test whether the ACA dependent care provision is associated with young adults' propensity to live with/near parents and to receive food assistance. Data come from the 2008 Survey of Income and Program Participation. Findings indicate that the provision is associated with a 3.0 percentage...

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Macroeconomic-Driven Prepayment Risk and the Valuation of Mortgage-Backed Securities

Chernov, Mikhail - 2016

We introduce a reduced-form modeling framework for mortgage-backed securities in which we solve for the implied prepayment function from the cross section of market prices. From the implied prepayment function, we find that prepayment rates are driven not only by interest rates, but also by two...

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Secular Labor Reallocation and Business Cycles

Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel - 2016

We study the effect of mean-preserving labor reallocation on business cycle outcomes. We develop an empirical methodology using a local area's exposure to industry reallocation based on the area's initial industry composition and employment trends in the rest of the country over a full...

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Foreign Born Scientists : Mobility Patterns for Sixteen Countries

Franzoni, Chiara - 2012

country, the most likely reason respondents report for returning to one's home country is family or personal …

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The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development

Ashraf, Quamrul - 2011

This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the...

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School accountability and teacher mobility

Feng, Li - 2010

This paper presents the first causal evidence on the effects of school accountability systems on teacher labor markets. We exploit a 2002 change in Florida's school accountability system that exogenously shocked some schools to higher accountability grades and others to lower accountability...

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Can Owning a Home Hedge the Risk of Moving?

Sinai, Todd M. - 2009

Conventional wisdom holds that one of the riskiest aspects of owning a house is the uncertainty surrounding its sale price, especially if one moves to another housing market. However, households who sell a house typically buy another house, whose purchase price is also uncertain. We show that...

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Will the U.S. Keep the Best and the Brightest (as Post-docs)? Career and Location Preferences of Foreign STEM PhDs

Ganguli, Ina - 2018

We estimate the career and location preferences of students in U.S. doctoral programs in a major STEM field - chemistry. Our analysis is based on novel survey conducted in 2017 of 1,605 current Chemistry doctoral students enrolled in the top 54 U.S. research intensive universities. First, we...

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