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Unpaid work and the economy: Linkages and their implications

Hirway, Indira - 2015

Unpaid work, which falls outside of the national income accounts but within the general production boundary, is viewed as either "care" or as "work" by experts. This work is almost always unequally distributed between men and women, and if one includes both paid and unpaid work, women carry much...

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So close yet so unequal: Reconsidering spatial inequality in U.S. cities

Andreoli, Francesco; Peluso, Eugenio - 2017

income database from the U.S. census is used to establish new stylized facts about the patterns of spatial inequality in the …

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Population and economic growth: Ancient and moderns

Brezis, Elise S.; Young, Warren - 2013

This paper focuses on the evolution of the relationship between population and economic growth from Hume to New Growth …

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To Go or not to Go: Migration Alleviates Climate Damages even for Those Who Stay Behind

Shayegh, Soheil; Casey, Greg P. - 2017

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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The long-run effects of the 1930s redlining maps on children

Aaronson, Daniel; Mazumder, Bhashkar; Hartley, Daniel; … - 2022

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 …

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Towards a unified theory of economic growth: Oded Galor on the transition from Malthusian stagnation to modern economic growth

Snowdon, Brian - 2008

An interview with Oded Galor on the development of unified growth theory.

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A Stakeholder Empire: The Political Economy of Spanish Imperial RuleIn America

Grafe, Regina; Irigoin, Alejandra - Northwestern University <Evanston, Ill.; College of New …; …

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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Fact or Fiction? Re-examination of Chinese Premodern Population Statistics

Deng, Kent G. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

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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Citizens´ groups in Japan and the Internet

Ducke, Isa - 2003

The Internet, like other new technologies, will undoubtedly affect civil society and the workings of activists, citizens´ groups, and the political process as a whole. But how radical will this impact be, and precisely how will the Internet change the way citizens´ groups act?

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Using stock returns to identify government spending shocks

Fisher, Jonas D.M.; Peters, Ryan - 2009

This paper explores a new approach to identifying government spending shocks which avoids many of the shortcomings of existing approaches. The new approach is to identify government spending shocks with statistical innovations to the accumulated excess returns of large US military contractors....

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