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Birth Rates and Border Crossings : Latin American Migration to the Us, Canada, Spain, and the UK
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2014
We use census data for the US, Canada, Spain, and UK to estimate bilateral migration rates to these countries from 25 Latin American and Caribbean nations over the period 1980 to 2005. Latin American migration to the US is responsive to labor supply shocks, as predicted by earlier changes in...
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Censorship, Family Planning, and the Historical Fertility Transition
Beach, Brian - 2019
The historical fertility transition is one of the most important events in economic history. This study provides new … the sharp decline in fertility that took place in Britain beginning in that year. We then show that similar declines are … highlight the importance of changing social norms in the historical fertility transition and provide novel evidence showing that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012872300
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Child Support and Fathers' Remarriage and Fertility
Bloom, David E.; Conrad, Cecilia; Miller, Cynthia - 2021
subsequent fertility …
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The Impacts of Reduced Access to Abortion and Family Planning Services on Abortion, Births, and Contraceptive Purchases
Fischer, Stefanie - 2017
Between 2011 and 2014, Texas enacted three pieces of legislation that significantly reduced funding for family planning services and increased restrictions on abortion clinic operations. Together this legislation creates cross-county variation in access to abortion and family planning services,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950833
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What are We Weighting for?
Solon, Gary - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to help empirical economists think through when and how to weight the data used in estimation. We start by distinguishing two purposes of estimation: to estimate population descriptive statistics and to estimate causal effects. In the former type of research,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085910
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Linking Individuals Across Historical Sources : A Fully Automated Approach
Abramitzky, Ran - 2018
Linking individuals across historical datasets relies on information such as name and age that is both non-unique and prone to enumeration and transcription errors. These errors make it impossible to find the correct match with certainty. In the first part of the paper, we suggest a fully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927030
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"The Use of the Census to Estimate Childhood Mortality : Comparisons Fromthe 1900 and 1910 United States Census Public Use Samples"
Haines, Michael R.; Preston, Samuel H. - 2021
This paper estimates child mortality by race and nativity for the U.S. as a whole and the Death Registration Area based on the public use micro- samples of the 1900 and 1910 censuses. We compare indirect estimates to mortality rates and parameters based on published census and vital statistics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013236839
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A New Sample of Americans Linked from the 1850 Public Use Micro Sampleofthe Federal Census of Population to The1860 Federal Census Manuscript Sched
Ferrie, Joseph P. - 2021
Though the geographic, occupational, and financial mobility of average Americans were important aspects of nineteenth century U.S. economic development, the extent and correlates of this economic mobility have remained open to debate in the absence of individual- level longitudinal data. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240583
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Inaccurate Age and Sex Data in the Census Pums Files : Evidence and Implications
Alexander, J. Trent - 2010
We discover and document errors in public use microdata samples ("PUMS files") of the 2000 Census, the 2003-2006 American Community Survey, and the 2004-2009 Current Population Survey. For women and men ages 65 and older, age- and sex-specific population estimates generated from the PUMS files...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148377
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"The Population of the United States, 1790-1920"
Haines, Michael R. - 2021
`long' nineteenth century. The fertility transition was early (dating from at least 1800) and from very high levels. The … levels were moderate, and death rates began their sustained decline only by the 1870s, long after the fertility transition … or accompanies the fertility transition. Internal migration in the United States was also distinctive. Over most of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245134