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How the West 'Invented' Fertility Restriction
Voigtländer, Nico - 2011
Europeans restricted their fertility long before the Demographic Transition. By raising the marriage age of women and ensuring that a substantial proportion remained celibate, the "European Marriage Pattern" (EMP) reduced childbirths by up to one third between the 14th and 18th century. In a...
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Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2013
Despite the importance attributed to the effects of diversity on the stability and prosperity of nations, the origins of the uneven distribution of ethnic and cultural fragmentation across countries have been underexplored. Building on the role of deeply-rooted biogeographical forces in...
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Property Rights and Parliament in Industrializing Britain
Bogart, Daniel E. - 2010
During Britain's industrialization, Parliament operated a forum where rights to land and resources could be reorganized. This venue enabled landholders and communities to exploit economic opportunities that could not be accommodated by the inflexible rights regime inherited from the past. In...
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The Great Migration of Black Americans from the Us South : A Guide and Interpretation
Collins, William J. - 2022
The Great Migration from the US South is a prominent theme in economic history research not only because it was a prime example of large scale internal migration, but also because it had far-reaching ramifications for American economic, social, and political change. This article offers a concise...
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Long-Term Effects of the 1959-1961 China Famine : Mainland China and Hong Kong
Almond, Douglas; Edlund, Lena; Li, Hongbin; Zhang, Junsen - 2021
This paper estimates the effects of maternal malnutrition exploiting the 1959-1961 Chinese famine as a natural experiment. In the 1% sample of the 2000 Chinese Census, we find that fetal exposure to acute maternal malnutrition had compromised a range of socioeconomic outcomes, including:...
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The Economics of China : Successes and Challenges
Fan, Shenggen - 2013
This paper is the first chapter in the Oxford Companion to the Economics of China (Oxford University Press, forthcoming …). Rather than trying to summarize other contributors' views, we provide our own perspectives on the Economics of China …--the past experience and the future prospects. Our reading of China's economic development over the past 35 years raises two …
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Gender-Targeted Job Ads in the Recruitment Process : Evidence from China
Kuhn, Peter - 2018
We document how explicit employer requests for applicants of a particular gender enter the recruitment process on a Chinese job board. Overall, we find that 19 out of 20 callbacks to jobs requesting a particular gender are of the requested gender. Mostly, this is because application pools to...
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Economic Cycles in Ancient China
Zhang, Yaguang - 2015
We discuss business cycles in ancient China. Data on Ancient China business cycles are sparse and incomplete and so our … years for OECD countries and with major focus on the 1990's. Here we also probe material on Ancient China to see what is …
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Vertical Integration, Institutional Determinants and Impact : Evidence from China
Fan, Joseph P. H. - 2013
political rent seeking is substantial, firm value might rise as economy performance decays. China offers a suitable background …
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East Asian Financial and Economic Development
Morck, Randall - 2017
over a single generation. China now seems poised to follow a similar trajectory. All three cases highlight the importance …
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