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Demographic Analysis of Birthweight-Specific Neonatal Mortality

Corman, Hope - 1988

This paper explores the determinants of birthweight-specific neonatal mortality rates across States in the U.S. in 1980. We are able to explore the interactions between the determinants and birthweight because of the new data available through the National Infant Mortality Surveillance (NIMS)....

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Partisanship and Survey Refusal

Borgschulte, Mark - 2019

Survey refusal in the Current Population Survey (CPS) has tripled over the last decade. This rise coincides with the emergence of rhetoric, largely from the political right, questioning the accuracy and integrity of government statistics. We examine how support for the Tea Party and the...

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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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Urban Decline and Durable Housing

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2001

People continue to live in many big American cities, because in those cities housing costs less than new construction. While cities may lose their productive edge, their houses remain and population falls only when housing depreciates. This paper presents a simple durable housing model of urban...

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Demographic Factors and Real House Prices

Green, Richard K. - 1993

Real house prices are directly determined by the willingness of households to pay for (and willingness of builders to supply) a constant-quality house. Changes in the quantity of housing demanded will affect real prices only to the extent that the long-run housing supply schedule is positively...

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Work and Leisure in the U.S. and Europe : Why So Different?

Alesina, Alberto - 2005

-wide influence on leisure patterns because of a social multiplier where the returns to leisure increase as more people are taking …

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Inequality in the Joint Distribution of Consumption and Time Use

Han, Jeehoon - 2018

This paper examines inequality in both leisure and consumption over the past four decades using time use surveys … most of the long run variation in leisure. We then use these characteristics to predict the distribution of leisure in the … that it gives us measures of consumption and leisure at the family level within a single data source. We find that leisure …

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Why Work More? The Impact of Taxes, and Culture of Leisure on Labor Supply in Europe

Mocan, Naci H. - 2015

We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of "culture of leisure" and taxes on labor …. We construct measures of "taste for leisure" in the country of origin of each immigrant father. We employ average and … leisure impact participation and hours worked. For men, taxes influence labor supply both at the intensive and the extensive …

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College as Country Club : Do Colleges Cater to Students' Preferences for Consumption?

Jacob, Brian - 2013

This paper investigates whether demand-side market pressure explains colleges' decisions to provide consumption amenities to their students. We estimate a discrete choice model of college demand using micro data from the high school classes of 1992 and 2004, matched to extensive information on...

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The Evolution of Income, Consumption, and Leisure Inequality in The US, 1980-2010

Attanasio, Orazio - 2012

In this paper, we use a variety of different techniques to overcome the measurement error problems with the CE. First, we use data from the diary component of the CE, focusing on categories where measurement error has been found to be less of an issue. Second, we explore inequality measures...

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