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Be Fruitful and Multiply? Moderate Fecundity and Long-Run Reproductive Success
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - 2014
the population median, suggesting that the forces of natural selection favored individuals with a lower level of fecundity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352345
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The Biocultural Origins of Human Capital Formation
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2014
finding further indicates that the optimal level of fecundity was below the population median, lending credence to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409391
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The Biocultural Origins of Human Capital Formation
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
finding further indicates that the optimal level of fecundity was below the population median, lending credence to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959539
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Be Fruitful and Multiply? Moderate Fecundity and Long-Run Reproductive Success
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
the population median, suggesting that the forces of natural selection favored individuals with a lower level of fecundity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752232
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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Modin, Bitte - 2013
We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329078
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School Closures, Mortality, and Human Capital: Evidence from the Universe of Closures during the 1918 Pandemic in Sweden
Dahl, Christian M.; Hansen, Casper W.; Jensen, Peter S.; … - 2023
This study examines the impact of primary-school closures during the 1918 Pandemic in Sweden on mortality and long-term outcomes of school children. Using the universe of death certificates from 1914-1920 and newly-collected data on school closures across 2,100 districts, we conduct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469437
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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Modin, Bitte - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010695870
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Mass Refugee Inflow and Long-Run Prosperity: Lessons from the Greek Population Resettlement
Murard, Elie; Sakalli, Seyhun Orcan - 2018
effect of the first large-scale population resettlement in modern history. After the Greco-Turkish war of 1919–1922, 1 ….2 million Greek Orthodox were forcibly resettled from Turkey to Greece, increasing the Greek population by more than 20% within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931578
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Celebrating 150 years of analyzing fertility trends in Germany
Kendzia, Michael J.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 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 … the beginning. It points out that several articles anticipated subsequent research directions in the area of population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282242
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Celebrating 150 Years of Analyzing Fertility Trends in Germany
Kendzia, Michael J.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 … the beginning. It points out that several articles anticipated subsequent research directions in the area of population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650607