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City Size, Pollution and Emission Policies
Pflüger, Michael - 2018
This paper develops a micro-founded city systems model with an endogenous number of cities to explore whether local governments establish the optimal city size when production processes involve environmental pollution. Our analysis delivers two key insights. First, if an optimal scheme to...
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Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility : A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2021
This paper provides a unified theory of the economic and demographic transition. Individuals make optimal decisions about fertility, education of their children and the type and intensity of the investments in their own education. These decisions are affected by different dimensions of mortality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316935
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Sibling Rivalry in Educational Attainment : The German Case
Bauer, Thomas K.; Gang, Ira N. - 2021
Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321252
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Household Finances and Well-Being : An Empirical Analysis of Comparison Effects
Brown, Sarah - 2014
This paper explores the importance of the household's financial position for an individual's level of well … household's monetary financial position on overall life satisfaction and financial well-being, with the latter being measured by … indicate that the household's level of net wealth, assets and debt are important determinants of overall life satisfaction and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045069
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Population Policies, Demographic Structural Changes, and the Chinese Household Saving Puzzle
Ge, Suqin - 2012
structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under … investigated in the context of household saving decisions in China …Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096769
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The Impact of Labor Market Entry Conditions on Initial Job Assignment, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wages
Brunner, Beatrice - 2010
We estimate the effects of labor market entry conditions on wages for male individuals first entering the Austrian labor market between 1978 and 2000. We find a large negative effect of unfavorable entry conditions on starting wages as well as a sizeable negative long-run effect. Specifically,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135184
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Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Comparative Advantages, Compulsory Schooling, and Earnings
Belzil, Christian - 2011
We show that a calibrated dynamic skill accumulation model allowing for comparative advantages, can explain the weak (or negative) effects of schooling on productivity that have been recently reported (i) in the micro literature on compulsory schooling, ii) in the micro literature on estimating...
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The Long-Term Direct and External Effects of Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2011
This paper provides causal evidence on long-term consequences of Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany on the educational attainment and political outcomes of German children. We combine a unique city-level dataset on the fraction of Jewish population residing in Germany before the Nazi Regime with...
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Causal Returns to Schooling and Individual Heterogeneity
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2012
In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to schooling. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on earnings as a continuous treatment effect. Empirical evidence is based on a sample of West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104973
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Post Schooling Human Capital Investments and the Life Cycle Variance of Earnings
Magnac, Thierry - 2013
We propose an original model of human capital investments after leaving school in which individuals differ in their initial human capital obtained at school, their rate of return, their costs of human capital investments and their terminal values of human capital at a fixed date in the future....
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