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Dynamics and Stagnation in the Malthusian Epoch
Ashraf, Quamrul - 2011
This paper examines the central hypothesis of the influential Malthusian theory, according to which improvements in the technological environment during the pre-industrial era had generated only temporary gains in income per capita, eventually leading to a larger, but not significantly richer,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461621
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Who Owns Children and Does it Matter?
Schoonbroodt, Alice - 2010
failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention. The …) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents … transfer floor is binding, fertility choices are inefficient. We show how this inefficiency relates to dynamic inefficiency in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462988
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Fertility Theories : Can They Explain the Negative Fertility-Income Relationship?
Jones, Larry E. - 2008
In this chapter we revisit the relationship between income and fertility. There is overwhelming empirical evidence that … fertility is negatively related to income in most countries at most times. Several theories have been proposed in the literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464383
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Male Earnings, Marriageable Men, and Nonmarital Fertility : Evidence from the Fracking Boom
Kearney, Melissa S. - 2017
There has been a well-documented retreat from marriage among less educated individuals in the U.S. and non-marital childbearing has become the norm among young mothers and mothers with low levels of education. One hypothesis is that the declining economic position of men in these populations is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455273
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Intra-Household Insurance and the Intergenerational Transmission of Income Risk
Agostinelli, Francesco; Ferraro, Domenico; Qiu, Xincheng; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or not work at all, time spent with children, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468296
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Happiness Adaptation to Income beyond "Basic Needs"
Tella, Rafael Di - 2008
We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985-2000, and data on the well-being of over 600,000 people in a panel of European countries from 1975-2002, shows different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464111
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Trade policy, income risk, and welfare
Krebs, Tom - 2005
"This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and uses the estimates of this empirical analysis to evaluate the welfare effect of trade reform. The analysis proceeds in three steps. First, longitudinal data on workers are used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522578
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Wider Economic Benefits of Investments in Transport Corridors and the Role of Complementary Policies
Melecky, Martin - 2018
This paper estimates the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral and North-South-East-West Highways in India on welfare, social inclusion, and environmental quality. The analysis uses district-level data for 1994-2011 and the difference-in-difference method. The results suggest that the highways...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926890
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Language-Skill Complementarity : Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition
Berman, Eli - 2000
We examine the effect of language acquisition on the growth of immigrants' earnings. We gathered data on recent Soviet immigrants to Israel that include retrospective questions on earnings and language ability on entry into their current job. Language acquisition is found to interact positively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471013
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Nominal Income Targeting in an Open-Economy Optimizing Model
McCallum, Bennett T. - 2000
This paper presents stochastic simulation results pertaining to the performance of nominal income targeting, here represented as a monetary policy rule that sets quarterly values of an interest rate instrument in response to deviations on existing studies of nominal income growth from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471031