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the fertility and marital behavior in Germany, until recently a lowest-low fertility setting. We find that exposure to … greater import competition from Eastern Europe led to worse labor market outcomes and lower fertility rates. In contrast …, workers in industries that benefited from increased exports had better employment prospects and higher fertility. These …
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of study, but also an accounting of individuals' next-best alternatives. Our setting is Sweden, where at the end of ninth … earnings can be attributed to differences in college major and occupation. Taken together, these results highlight that the …
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Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, the patterns they display, their determinants, and how they shape households' and firms' economic...
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We examine ten cohorts of male eighth graders in public schools in Chicago, IL: 1995-2004. We find that composite measures of math achievement, reading achievement, and neighborhood SES during elementary school are strong predictors of future felony arraignment and incarceration, even among...
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The traditional historical narrative claims that White women were rarely involved in market transactions for enslaved people in the antebellum United States. Using transaction records, notary statements, and runaway advertisements, we provide the first quantitative estimates of the extent of...
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identify all 36,329 families in which enumerators assigned same-gender siblings different Black/Mulatto classifications …
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outcomes. We generalize a model of fertility, highlighting assumptions under which these abortion predictions can be reversed …
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We hypothesize that the impact of antibiotics is moderated by a population's inherent (genetic) resistance to infectious disease. Using the introduction of sulfa drugs in 1937, we show that US states that are more genetically susceptible to infectious disease saw larger declines in their...
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Using comparable data for 24 countries since the 1970s, we document gender convergence in schooling, employment and … earnings, marriage delay and the accompanying decline in fertility, and the large remaining gaps in labor market outcomes … changes, family policies and gender equality …
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This paper provides novel insights into the science of scaling by examining an educational mentoring program in Mexico. Our analysis encompasses two separate field experiments, and takes advantage of a unique opportunity to learn from the government's implementation of the program on a large...
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