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Demographic Patterns and Household Saving in China

Curtis, Chadwick - 2011

This paper studies the effect that changing demographic patterns have had on the household saving rate in China. We …

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Demographics and Aggregate Household Saving in Japan, China, and India

Curtis, Chadwick - 2015

aggregate household saving rates in Japan, China, and India. The observed age distributions help explain the contrasting saving … saving rates, while decreasing family size increases saving for both China and India. Projecting forward, the model predicts … lower household saving rates in Japan and China …

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Jobs and Kids : Female Employment and Fertility in Rural China

Fang, Hai - 2010

Data on 2,355 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are used to study how female employment … affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship … married woman's preferred number of children by 0.35 on average and her actual number by 0.50. Ramifications for China's one …

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The Impact of Young Workers on the Aggregate Labor Market

Shimer, Robert - 2000

This paper estimates the response of the unemployment rate and labor force participation rate to exogenous variation in the youth share of the working age population, using cross-state variation in lagged birth rates as an instrumental variable. A one percent increase in the youth share reduces...

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Ethnic Differences in Demographic Behavior in the United States : What Can We Learn from Vital Statistics About Inequality?

Haines, Michael R. - 2017

This paper looks at the fertility and mortality experience of racial and ethnic groups in the United States from the early 20th century to the present. The first part consist of a description and critique of the racial and ethnic categories used in the federal census and in the published vital...

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Transportation and Health in the Antebellum United States 1820-1847

Zimran, Ariell - 2018

I study the impact of transportation on health in the rural US, 1820–1847. Measuring health by average stature, I find that greater transportation linkage, as measured by market access, in a cohort's county-year of birth had an adverse impact on its health. A one-standard deviation increase in...

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Finding a Way Out of America'S Demographic Dilemma

Kotlikoff, Laurence J.; Smetters, Kent A.; Walliser, Jan - 2021

Notwithstanding the rosy short-term fiscal scenarios being advanced in Washington, the demographic transition presents the United States with a very serious fiscal crisis. In 30 years there will be twice the number of elderly, but only 15 percent more workers to help pay Social Security and...

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What Happened During the Baby Boom? New Estimates of Age and Parity : Specific Birth Probabilities for American Women

Sanderson, Warren C. - 2021

It is the main purpose of this paper to examine in detail the pattern of fertility fluctuations in the United States since the Second World War and to define, with some precision, the questions these patterns raise for students of fertility behavior

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Global Demographic Change : Dimensions and Economic Significance

Bloom, David E.; Canning, David - 2021

Transitions from high mortality and fertility to low mortality and fertility can be beneficial to economies as large baby boom cohorts enter the workforce and save for retirement, while rising longevity has perhaps increased both the incentive to invest in education and to save for retirement....

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Fundamentals or Population Dynamics and the Geographic Distribution of U.S. Biotechnology Enterprises, 1976-1989

Zucker, Lynne G.; Darby, Michael R.; Peng, Yusheng - 2021

Population ecology models are elegant in form and adequate in describing aggregate data, but poor in telling stories and predicting the location of growth. Fundamentals models emphasizing the variables central to resource mobilization, such as intellectual human capital, can predict where and...

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