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Where Have All the Children Gone? An Empirical Study of Child Abandonment and Abduction in China

Bao, Xiaojia - 2019

implementation of the one-child policy has significantly increased both child abandonment and child abduction and that, furthermore … following findings: (1) Stricter one-child policy implementation leads to more child abandonment locally and more child … spatial spillover effects of the region's one-child policy on child abandonment and abduction; and (3) With the gradual …

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Fluctuations in a Dreadful Childhood : Synthetic Longitudinal Height Data, Relative Prices and Weather in the Short-Term Health of American Slaves

Steckel, Richard H. - 2021

For over a quarter century anthropometric historians have struggled to identify and measure the numerous factors that affect adult stature, which depends upon diet, disease and physical activity from conception to maturity. I simplify this complex problem by assessing nutritional status in a...

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Dimensions and Determinants of Early Childhood Health and Mortality Among American Slaves

Steckel, Richard H. - 2022

This paper relies on birth and death lists from plantation records to investigate the causes of low birth weight and poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period. The slave work routine was arduous overall and particularily intense during...

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Estimating Neonatal Mortality Rates from the Heights of Children : the Case of American Slaves

Steckel, Richard H. - 2021

Underenumeration of vital events is a problem familiar topeople who work with historical demographic records. This paper proposes a method for recovering information about neonatal mortality.The approach utilizes average heights of young children to predict the birth weight of American slaves....

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Betting on Secession : Quantifying Political Events Surrounding Slavery and the Civil War

Calomiris, Charles W. - 2013

Abraham Lincoln's election produced Southern secession, Civil War, and abolition. Using a new database of slave sales from New Orleans, we examine the connections between political news and the prices of slaves for 1856-1861. We find that slave prices declined by roughly a third from their 1860...

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The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades

Nunn, Nathan - 2010

Can part of Africa's current underdevelopment be explained by its slave trades? To explore this question, I use data from shipping records and historical documents reporting slave ethnicities to construct estimates of the number of slaves exported from each country during Africa's slave trades....

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Inflation Targeting in Transition Countries : Experience and Prospects

Jonas, Jiri; Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2021

This paper examines the inflation targeting experience in three transition countries: the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary. While the examined countries have missed inflation targets often by a large margin, they nevertheless progressed well with disinflation. A key lesson from the experience...

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Macroeconomic Policy and Institutions During the Transition to European Union Membership

Branson, William H.; Braga de Macedo, Jorge; von Hagen, … - 2021

would improve fiscal performance in all four countries. The adoption of a kind of convergence program would also be made …

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Winners and Losers from Sovereign Debt Inflows

Broner, Fernando; Martin, Alberto; Pandolfi, Lorenzo; … - 2022

We study the transmission of sovereign debt inflow shocks on domestic firms. We exploit episodes of large sovereign debt inflows in six emerging countries that are due to the announcements of these countries' inclusion in two major local-currency sovereign debt indexes. We show that these...

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On the Speed of Transition Central Europe

Aghion, Philippe; Blanchard, Olivier J. - 2003

Transition in Central Europe is four years old. State firms which dominated the economy are struggling with market forces. A new private sector quickly emerged and has taken hold. Unemployment, which did not exist, is high and still increasing. Will this process of transition accelerate, or slow...

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