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Prussia Disaggregated : The Demography of its Universe of Localities in 1871
Becker, Sascha O. - 2020
We provide, for the first time, a detailed and comprehensive overview of the demography of more than 50,000 towns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835254
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Health Behaviors and Education in Turkey
Tansel, Aysit - 2014
This is the first study which provides empirical analysis of the variation in health behaviors for adult men and women in Turkey which is a developing country. The health behaviors considered are smoking, drinking, fruit and vegetable consumption, exercise and body mass index (BMI).We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051797
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Demography of Global Aging
Bloom, David E. - 2016
Individuals aged 65 years and older currently make up a larger share of the population than ever before, and this group is predicted to continue growing both in absolute terms and relative to the rest of the population. This chapter begins by introducing the facts, figures, and forecasts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983909
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Celebrating 150 Years of Analyzing Fertility Trends in Germany
Kendzia, Michael Jan - 2012
Ever since the very beginning of the Journal of Economics and Statistics, population economics has featured prominently in the Journal. Fertility naturally plays an important role in population economics. Its size has decreased significantly from the 1900s. Long time-series regarding fertility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110196
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Entrepreneurship and Market Size : The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy
Di Addario, Sabrina Lucia - 2010
fixed effects and is robust to instrumenting urbanization. Provinceﾒs competition, urban amenities and dis-amenities, cost … capita account for 40 percent of the negative urbanization penalty. Our result cannot be explained by the presence of … markets, young entrepreneurs are able to reap-off the benefits of urbanization externalities: every 100,000-inhabitant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139697
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Rural Labor Absorption Efficiency in Urban Areas Under Different Urbanization Patterns and Industrial Structures : The Case of China
Liwen, Chen - 2011
under the interaction of urbanization and industrialization. We applied an output-oriented BCC model to evaluate provincial … urbanization patterns and industrial development strategies should be adopted in different economic areas to enhance labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117200
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Some Evidence on the Nature of Urbanization Economies
Krupka, Douglas J. - 2015
Urbanization economies - the effects on productivity and utility created endogenously by larger cities - are a … amongst these variables depends on the nature of the dominant urbanization economy (or diseconomy). This paper looks at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039222
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Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction : Refocusing the Urbanization Agenda
Christiaensen, Luc - 2017
This review is framed around the exploration of a central hypothesis: A shift in public investment towards secondary towns from big cities will improve poverty reduction performance. Of course the hypothesis raises many questions. What exactly is the dichotomy of secondary towns versus big...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960252
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Walled Cities and Urban Density in China
Du, Rui - 2018
Throughout the imperial era, defensive walls surrounded Chinese cities. Although most city walls have vanished, the cities have survived. We analyze a sample of nearly 300 prefectural-level cities in China, among which about half historically had city walls. We document that cities that had...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906519
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Height, Weight and Well-Being for Rural, Urban and Migrant Workers in China
Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2015
In general, the happiness literature has paid little attention to the relationship between physical appearance and well-being. In this paper, we examine the link between weight, height and well-being for three distinct samples in China given that attractiveness effects likely vary greatly across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014005