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2008 Lawrence R. Klein Lecture -- Comparative Economic Development: Insights from Unified Growth Theory

Galor, Oded - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identifies the factors that have governed the pace of the transition from...

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Maternal partnership instability and coparenting Maternal Partnership Instability and Coparenting among Fragile Families

Cooper, Carey E.; Beck, Audrey N.; Högnäs, Robin S. - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2011

Data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 2,725) are used to examine associations between mothers‘ partnership instability and coparenting over the first five years after a nonmarital birth, differences between coresidential and nonresident, dating transitions and variation...

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Parents’ Relationship Quality and Children’s Behavior in Married and Cohabiting Families

Goldberg, Julia S.; Carlson, Marcia J. - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2013

While an extensive literature has shown that family structure is linked with child wellbeing, less well understood is how the dynamics within families affect children. Family systems theory posits that parents’ couple relationship is important for children’s well-being. In this paper, we use...

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The Intergenerational Consequences of Mass Incarceration: Implications for Children’s Contact with Grandparents

Turney, Kristin - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2013

In response to the rapid growth in mass incarceration, a burgeoning literature documents the mostly deleterious consequences of mass incarceration for individuals and families. But mass incarceration, which has profoundly altered the American kinship system, may also have implications for...

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Receptarea soap-opera de către tineri. Studiu de caz: „Beverly Hills”

Branea, Silvia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

Besides the theoretical approach, the paper also includes an research conducted with students of the Faculty of Jornalism and Communication at the University of Bucarest. The main objective of this research was to determine the extent to which the media fiction (television series for youth)...

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Mujeres rurales jóvenes y migración en Colombia

Arias, María Alejandra; Ibáñez, Ana María; Peña, Ximena - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2013

En Colombia, las mujeres rurales jóvenes migran a las áreas urbanas. La migración es adoptada por las mujeres rurales como una estrategia para mitigar la vulnerabilidad y los niveles de pobreza que enfrentan en las áreas rurales. Este documento estudia cómo la migración afecta las...

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Where there is a will: Fertility behavior and sex bias in large families

Jain, Tarun - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Boys and girls in India experience large dierences in survival and health outcomes. For example, the 2001 Census reports that the sex ratio for children under six years of age is 927 girls per thousand boys, an outcome that has been attributed to differences in parents’ behavior towards their...

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Children's Resources in Collective Households: Identification, Estimation, and an Application to Child Poverty in Malawi

Dunbar, Geoffrey R.; Lewbel, Arthur; Pendakur, Krishna - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 1, pp. 438-71

The share of household resources devoted to children is hard to identify because consumption is measured at the household level and goods can be shared. Using semiparametric restrictions on individual preferences within a collective model, we identify how total household resources are divided up...

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Real-Time Macroeconomic Monitoring: Real Activity, Inflation, and Interactions

Aruoba, S. Boragan; Diebold, Francis X. - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 2, pp. 20-24

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Country Risk - an Externality of the Globalization Process

Mariana, Iovitu; Mihaela, Iliescu Elena - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XI (2011) 1, pp. 1050-1055

concepts like protectionism, globalization, economic patriotism and country risk, and also the eco-socio-political correlations … interpreting country risk. Forasmuch, protectionism is seen as a tool for stimulating domestic industry and a means of defense … against foreign competition, while economic globalization is assessed in terms of free movement of capital. Analysis of …

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