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A contribution to the theory of fertility and economic development
Gori, Luca; Sodini, Mauro - 2018
with endogenous fertility. The economy is comprised of overlapping generations of rational and identical individuals and … perspective, the distinguishing feature of this work is that endogenous fertility per se is able to explain the existence of low … enter development trajectories with high GDP and low fertility and others experience under-performances with low GDP and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130325
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A parsimonious model of longevity, fertility, HIV transmission and development
Gori, Luca; Manfredi, Piero; Sodini, Mauro - 2018
equilibrium growth model with endogenous fertility and endogenous longevity under the threat of a deadly enduring infectious … the fertility response to the evolving epidemic conditions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131225
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Expanding the measurement of culture with a sample of two billion humans
Obradovich, Nick; Özak, Ömer; Martín, Ignacio; … - 2022
Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse survey-based methods or restricted but rich...
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Impacts of COVID-19 on the self-employed
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2021
This study estimates random effects and difference-in-difference-in-differences models to examine the initial impacts of COVID-19 on the employment and hours of unincorporated self-employed workers using monthly panel data from the Current Population Survey. For these workers, effects were...
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The gasoline price and the commuting behavior : towards sustainable modes of transport
Belloc, Ignacio; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, … - 2022
This paper analyzes how gasoline price is related to the time workers in the US spend commuting by private vehicle, public transport, walking, or cycling. Using data from the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003-2019, and collecting data on gasoline price by state and year, we find that...
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Gender inequality in COVID-19 times : evidence from UK prolific participants
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2020 - Revised version: 12December2020
We investigate gender differences across multiple dimensions after three months of the first UK lockdown of March 2020, using an online sample of approximately 1,500 Prolific respondents residents in the UK. We find that women's mental health was worse than men's along the four metrics we...
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How the earnings growth of U.S. immigrants was underestimated
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2021
Two radically different descriptions of immigrant earnings trajectories in the U.S. have emerged. One asserts that immigrant men following the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act have low initial earnings and high earnings growth. Another asserts that post-1965 immigrants have low initial...
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The impact of forced displacement on host communities : a review of the empirical literature in economics
Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2020
The paper reviews the literature that estimated the impact of forced displacement on host communities. A comparative analysis of the empirical models used in 59 studies and a meta-analysis of 972 results collected from these studies are the main contributions of the paper. Coverage extends to 19...
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The distributional impacts of early employment losses from COVID-19 : [running head: employment losses from COVID-19]
Cho, Seung Jin; Winters, John V. - 2020
COVID-19 substantially decreased employment, but the effects vary among demographic and socioeconomic groups. We document the employment losses in April 2020 across various groups using the U.S. Current Population Survey. The unemployment rate understates employment losses. We focus on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221840
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The Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown : first order effects on gender gaps in employment and domestic time use in India
Deshpande, Ashwini - 2020
Based on national-level panel data from Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE)'s Consumer Pyramids Household Survey (CPHS) database, this paper investigates the first effects of Covid-19 induced lockdown on employment and the gendered pattern of time allocation inside the home. Examining...
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