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Why has home ownership fallen among the young?

Fisher, Jonas D. M.; Gervais, Martin - 2010

We document that home ownership of households with 'heads' aged 25-44 years fell substantially between 1980 and 2000 and recovered only partially during the 2001-2005 housing boom. The 1980-2000 decline in young home ownership occurred as improvements in mortgage opportunities seemingly made it...

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Weather Shocks, Age of Marriage and the Direction of Marriage Payments

Corno, Lucia; Hildebrandt, Nicole; Voena, Alessandra - 2016

In this paper, we examine the impact of variation in local economic conditions on the hazard into child marriage (i … these areas, have similar effects on crop yields but opposite effects on the early marriage hazard in the two regions: in … Africa, droughts increase the hazard into early marriage, while in India, droughts decrease the hazard. We argue that the …

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Leibnitz integral rule and its application to the business firm's longevity problem

Gander, James P. - 2020

The paper takes the Leibnitz Integral Rule (LIR) under variable integration limits and demonstrates how it can be applied to a business firm's dynamic problem of determining its optimum level of investment activity, when the longevity (life span) of the investment is itself a variable determined...

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Long-Run Effects of Childhood Shocks on Health in Late Adulthood: Evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe

Halmdienst, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2013

In this paper we address the long-run effects of childhood shocks on health in late adulthood. Applying a life-course approach and data from SHARE we estimate direct and indirect effects of shocks like relocation, dispossession, or hunger on health outcomes after age fifty. Having lived in a...

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Immigration, fertility and human capital: A model of economic decline of the West

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2010

I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous low-skilled workers lose from unskilled...

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Involuntary integration in public education, fertility and human capital

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2008

This article analyzes the negative side of involuntary integration in public education - its effect on whites. The model shows that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and decreases fertility among more...

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Integrated public education, fertility and human capital

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011

This article analyzes the consequences of integration in public education. I show that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility among more affluent parents whose children...

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Abortion and human capital accumulation: A contribution to the understanding of the gender gap in education

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2008

This article analyzes the relationship between abortion and female education. It provides new empirical evidence from sub-Saharan Africa to show that more liberal abortion policies are associated with a higher female secondary school enrollment. It is assumed in the model that easier access to...

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Inter-ethnic redistribution and human investments

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2009

This article analyzes income redistribution in the inter-ethnic context. The model shows that redistribution in favor of less prosperous ethnic minorities raises fertility among the unskilled minority recipients, lowers fertility among the contributing local skilled, slows human capital...

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Origins of gender norms: Sibling gender composition and women's choice of occupation and partner

Brenøe, Anne Ardila - 2018

I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women's gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using Danish administrative data, I causally estimate the effect of having a second-born brother...

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