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Population and Regulation
Mulligan, Casey B. - 2004
We present a model of efficient regulation along the lines of Demsetz (1967). In this model, setting up and running regulatory institutions takes a fixed cost, and therefore jurisdictions with larger populations affected by a given regulation are more likely to have them. Consistent with the...
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Who Owns Children and Does it Matter?
Schoonbroodt, Alice - 2010
Is there an economic rationale for pronatalist policies? In this paper we propose and analyze a particular market failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention. The friction we investigate is related to the ownership of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462988
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Do Financial Incentives Affect Fertility?
Cohen, Alma - 2007
This paper investigates how fertility responds to changes in the price of a marginal child and in household income. We construct a large, individual-level panel data set of married Israeli women during the period 1999-2005 that contains fertility histories and detailed controls. We exploit...
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Population Growth and Carbon Emissions
Casey, Gregory - 2016
We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that...
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Population Policy : Abortion and Modern Contraception are Substitutes
Miller, Grant - 2016
There is longstanding debate in population policy about the relationship between modern contraception and abortion. Although theory predicts that they should be substitutes, the existing body of empirical evidence is difficult to interpret. What is required is a large-scale intervention that...
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Pensions and Contemporary Socioeconomic Change
Lindbeck, Assar - 2000
The paper discusses the consequences for the functioning of different pension systems of various types of socioeconomic changes, mainly demographic developments, variations in productivity growth and changes in real interest rates. Two of the pension systems have exogenous and four have...
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Was an Industrial Revolution Inevitable? Economic Growth Over the Very Long Run
Jones, Charles I. - 1999
This paper studies a growth model that is able to match several key facts of economic history. For thousands of years, the average standard of living seems to have risen very little, despite increases in the level of technology and large increases in the level of the population. Then, after...
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The Impact of Young Workers on the Aggregate Labor Market
Shimer, Robert - 1999
This paper estimates the response of the unemployment rate and labor force participation rate to exogenous variation in the youth share of the working age population, using cross-state variation in lagged birth rates as an instrumental variable. A one percent increase in the youth share reduces...
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Social Security and Demographic Uncertainty : The Risk Sharing Properties of Alternative Policies
Bohn, Henning - 1999
As the U.S. population ages, the growing retiree-worker ratio increases the burden of public retirement systems. Is it efficient to maintain a defined benefit social security system? Should PAYGO benefits be reduced and private retirement savings be encouraged? The paper examines these questions...
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Demographic Change and Public Assistance Expenditures
Moffitt, Robert A. - 1999
female-headed families is the strongest and dominant force in contributing to trends in real AFDC expenditures per capita … future trends in the age, race, and sex composition of the U.S. population show that expenditures in none of these programs … is likely to respond to such basic demographic trends, however …
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