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The Economic Consequences of 'Brain Drain' of the Best and Brightest : Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries

Gibson, John - 2010

Brain drain has long been a common concern for migrant-sending countries, particularly for small countries where high-skilled emigration rates are highest. However, while economic theory suggests a number of possible benefits, in addition to costs, from skilled emigration, the evidence base on...

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Improving Tax Compliance Without Increasing Revenue : Evidence from Population-Wide Randomized Controlled Trials in Papua New Guinea

Hoy, Christopher - 2020

This paper studies the impact of "nudges" on taxpayers with varying tax compliance histories in Papua New Guinea. We present the results from two population-wide randomized controlled trials in a setting that is characterized by low compliance rates and a lack of effective enforcement. We test...

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Fertility and the Plough

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011

The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We … fertility …

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Neighbourhood Choice and Neighbourhood Reproduction

Bergström, Lina - 2010

Although we know a lot about why households choose certain dwellings, we know relatively little about the mechanisms behind neighbourhood choice. Most studies of neighbourhood choice only focus on one or two dimensions of neighbourhoods: typically poverty and ethnicity. This paper argues that...

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On Population Structure and Marriage Dynamics

Giolito, Eugenio P. - 2010

between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two … single women in equilibrium. Using an extended version of the model to a finite number of periods and fertility data, I show …

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Does Culture Matter?

Fernández, Raquel - 2010

issues, including female labor force participation, fertility, labor market regulation, redistribution, growth, and financial …

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Assortative Mating and Female Labor Supply

Bredemeier, Christian - 2010

This paper investigates the pattern of wives' hours disaggregated by the husband's wage decile. In the US, this pattern has changed from downward-sloping to hump-shaped. We show that this development can be explained within a standard household model of labor supply when taking into account...

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The Career Costs of Children

Adda, Jerome - 2011

-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and …-female wage gap as it evolves from labor market entry onward and the effect of pro-fertility policies. We show that a substantial … portion of the gender wage gap is explainable by realized and expected fertility and that the long-run effect of policies …

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Work and Wage Dynamics Around Childbirth

Ejrnaes, Mette - 2011

This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects by the control function approach. Register data on West Germany are used and we exploit the...

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More Schooling, More Children : Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe

Fort, Margherita - 2011

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …

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