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There have been more than 500,000 opioid overdose deaths since 2000. To analyze the opioid epidemic, we construct a …
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, using a political-economy model in which population growth potentially affects the risk of expropriation. We first explore …
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Ageing gives rise to concern about the sustainability of pay-as-you-go pension systems. One reform option suggested is to make the system actuarial by a tight connection between contributions and benefits. The incentives for the individual will then coincide with the interest of the pension...
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This paper empirically examines the effect of population growth on real interest rates. Although this effect is well … theories are typically based on long-term relationships across generations. Accordingly, key population trends appear often … only across decades, if not centuries, worth of data. To capture these trends, we distinguish between population growth …
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This paper focuses on the evolution of the relationship between population and economic growth from Hume to New Growth …
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We examine the effect of climate change on fertility rates and human capital accumulation in developing countries, focusing on the instrumental role of migration. In particular, we investigate how climate-induced migration in developing countries will affect those who do not migrate. Holding all...
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We estimate the long-run effects of the 1930s Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) redlining maps by linking children in the full count 1940 Census to 1) the universe of IRS tax data in 1974 and 1979 and 2) the long form 2000 Census. We use two identification strategies to estimate the potential...
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An interview with Oded Galor on the development of unified growth theory.
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This paper revises the traditional view of Spain as a predatorycolonial state that extracted revenue from natural resources andpopulations in the Americas while offering little in return. Using 18thcentury Spanish American treasury accounts we show that localelites not only exerted important...
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half a century or so, basic quantities ofsome basic factors have remained disagreed. Chinese population is one of them … Chinese official censuses have beensystematically thrown away almost completely.As a result, the picture of Chinese population …’s population size despite the fact that population is commonlyregarded as one of the key economic factors in an economy. The …
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