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Gender Roles and Medical Progress
Albanesi, Stefania - 2010
The entry of married women into the labor force is one of the most notable economic phenomena of the twentieth century. We argue that medical progress played a critical role in this process. Improved maternal health alleviated the adverse effects of pregnancy and childbirth on women's ability to...
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Economic Growth and the Demographic Transition
Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Sevilla, Jaypee - 2021
, combined with reduced fertility and increases in the working-age population, have contributed to economic growth in some areas …
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Population, Technology, and Growth : from the Malthusian Regime to the Demographic Transition and Beyond
Galor, Oded; Weil, David N. - 2021
This paper develops a unified model of growth, population, and technological progress that is consistent with long-term historical evidence. The economy endogenously evolves through three phases. In the Malthusian regime, population growth is positively related to the level of income per capita....
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Population and Ideas : A Theory of Endogenous Growth
Jones, Charles I. - 2021
Why do economies exhibit sustained growth in per capita income? This paper argues that endogenous fertility and … increasing returns to scale are the fundamental ingredients in understanding endogenous growth. Endogenous fertility leads the … fundamental insight of the idea-based growth literature according to this view. Endogenous fertility together with the increasing …
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Did Improvements in Household Technology Cause the Baby Boom? Evidence from Electrification, Appliance Diffusion, and the Amish
Bailey, Martha J. - 2012
advancements in household technology from 1940 to 1960 account for this large increase in fertility. We present new empirical … evidence that is inconsistent with this claim. Rapid advances in household technology began long before 1940 while fertility … fertility rates from 1940 to 1960; and the correlation between children ever born (measured at ages 41 to 60) and access to …
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New Goods and the Transition to a New Economy
Greenwood, Jeremy; Uysal, Gokce - 2021
worked in agriculture. Barely anyone did by 2000. What caused the rapid demise of agriculture in the economy? The analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221533
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Innovation, Growth and Structural Change in American Agriculture
Andersen, Matt A.; Pardey, Philip G. - 2022
U.S. agriculture was transformed during the 20th century by waves of innovation with mechanical, biological, chemical …, and information technologies. Compared with a few decades ago, today’s agriculture is much less labor intensive and farms …
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Agricultural Trade Reform, Reallocation and Technical Change : Evidence from the Canadian Prairies
Brown, W. Mark - 2017
We decompose the impact of trade reform on technology adoption and land use to study how aggregate changes were driven by reallocation versus within-farm adaptation. Using detailed census data covering over 30,000 farms in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada we find a range of new...
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News Shocks
Barsky, Robert - 2009
We implement a new approach for the identification of news shocks about future technology. In a VAR featuring a measure of aggregate technology and several forward-looking variables, we identify the news shock as the shock orthogonal to technology innovations that best explains future variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156463
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The Evolution of Comparative Advantage : Measurement and Welfare Implications
Levchenko, Andrei A. - 2011
We estimate productivities at the sector level for 72 countries and 5 decades, and examine how they evolve over time in both developed and developing countries. In both country groups, comparative advantage has become weaker: productivity grew systematically faster in sectors that were initially...
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