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Schipper, Burkhard C. - 2012

We correlate choice under risk in Holt-Laury lottery tasks for gains and losses with salivary testosterone, estradiol, progesterone, and cortisol, the use of hormonal contraceptives, menstrual cycle information as well as the digit ratio (2D:4D) in more than 200 subjects. Risk aversion is...

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Sex hormones and choice under risk

Schipper, Burkhard C. - 2014

We study the correlation of choice under risk in Holt-Laury lotteries for gains and losses with gender, the use of hormonal contraceptives, menstrual cycle information, salivary testosterone, estradiol, progesterone, and cortisol as well as the digit ratio (2D:4D) in more than 200 subjects. In...

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Population forecasts, fiscal policy, and risk

Tuljapurkar, Shripad - 2006

probabilistic forecasts of demographic rates, mortality, fertility, and immigration, and shows how these are combined to make …

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Survey of demographic challenges and discussion of human resource management strategies

Schwarz, Doreen; Hipp, Christiane - 2007

Human resource management is one of the key factors in the productivity, growth and value of companies in which knowledge plays a key role. However, especially the shrinking of industrialized societies, in which the population is ageing rapidly, will dramatically influence the structure of the...

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Human genealogy reveals a selective advantage to moderate fecundity

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2019

This research presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity had maximized long-run reproductive success in the human population. Using a reconstructed genealogy for nearly half a million individuals in Quebec during the 1608-1800 period, we find that while a high fecundity was associated...

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Winners and Losers from a Demographic Shock under Different Intergenerational Transfer Schemes

Zamac, Jovan - 2005

This study investigates the general equilibrium effects of a fertility shock under different intergenerational transfer … different tax schemes. The economic effects of a fertility shock vary substantially with different intergenerational transfer … the effects from a fertility shock it is vital that the effects on human capital are minimized. For a baby boom shock this …

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Can Demography Improve Inflation Forecasts? The Case of Sweden

Bruér, Mattias - 2002

Time series regressions indicate that age structure has significant forecasting power on Swedish inflation. The results agree with a Phillips-Okun framework, assuming that the demographic composition affects productivity. The relative age effects are also relatively well in accordance with what...

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Population growth and carbon emissions

Casey, Gregory; Galor, Oded - 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 changes in fertility patterns affect carbon emissions through three …

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The effect of Medicaid eligibility expansions on births

Bitler, Marianne; Zavodny, Madeline - 2000

In an effort to increase the use of prenatal care by pregnant women and the utilization of medical care by children, eligibility for Medicaid was expanded dramatically for pregnant women and children during the 1980s and early 1990s. By lowering the costs of prenatal care, delivery, and child...

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Is the male marriage premium due to selection? The effect of shotgun weddings on the return to marriage

Ginther, Donna; Zavodny, Madeline - 1998

In standard cross-sectional wage regressions, married men appear to earn 10 to 20 percent more than comparable never-married men. One proposed explanation for this male marriage premium is that men may be selected into marriage on the basis of characteristics valued by employers as well as by...

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