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Does community context have important bearings on the divorce rate? : a fixed-effects study of twenty Norwegian first-marriage cohorts
Lyngstad, Torkild H. (contributor) - 2006
Decisions to divorce could be affected by a number of characteristics of the local community. Community characteristics may be barriers to divorce (e.g. strong social control) or increase the attractiveness of divorcing (e.g. through access to a good remarriage market), but our knowledge of such...
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The causal effect of the great recession on childlessness of white American women
Comolli, Chiara Ludovica; Bernardi, Fabrizio - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-24
Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic crisis. These studies are based on research designs that do not allow for excluding that the observed association is driven by confounders. The aim of the present paper is to...
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Too young to leave the nest? : the effects of school starting age
Black, Sandra E. (contributor);  … - 2008
of a long-run effect of school starting age on student outcomes. This paper uses data on the population of Norway to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003752159
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The long-run determinants of fertility : one century of demographic change 1900 - 1999
Herzer, Dierk; Strulik, Holger; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2010 - This version: October 2010
We examine the long-run relationship between fertility, mortality, and income using panel cointegration techniques and … the available data for the last century. Our main result is that mortality changes and growth of income per capita account …, is insufficient to explain the secular decline of population growth. For that interaction of mortality and income growth …
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The Evaluation of Gender Income Inequality by Means of the Gini Index Decomposition
Costa, Michele - 2019
traditional measures, based on subgroups income means, to the approach related to inequality decomposition, and showing how … inequality measure. A three-terms decomposition of the Gini index is applied, thus allowing to take into account also the role of … overlapping component represents a key issue in gender gap analysis. An analysis of the income distribution of the Italian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867424
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Modeling the Evolution of Age-Dependent Gini Coefficient for Personal Incomes in the U.S. between 1967 and 2005
Kitov, Ivan - 2014
of inequality, which are defined by PID. Therefore, these measures of income inequality are only of secondary importance … portion of population not reporting any income, any comprehensive modeling of the overall personal income distribution (PID …) is complicated. Age-dependent PIDs allow overcoming this shortcoming since the portion of population without income is …
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The evaluation of gender income inequality by means of the Gini index decomposition
Costa, Michele - 2019
traditional measures, based on subgroups income means, to the approach related to inequality decomposition, and showing how … inequality measure. A three-terms decomposition of the Gini index is applied, thus allowing to take into account also the role of … overlapping component represents a key issue in gender gap analysis. An analysis of the income distribution of the Italian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026239
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Modeling the Evolution of Gini Coefficient for Personal Incomes in the USA Between 1947 and 2005
Kitov, Ivan - 2014
definition of income. Therefore the model Gini coefficient potentially better describes true behavior of inequality in the USA … are several versions of personal income distribution (PID) provided by the US Census Bureau (US CB) for this period with … people without income. For the PIDs not including persons without income, Gini coefficient is varying around 0.51 between …
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Rural mortality from external causes in Russian regions
Blinova, Tatiana; Bylina, Svetlana; Rusanovskiy, Victor - 2014
The paper addresses the factors that affect the reduction of rural mortality from external causes in the regions of RF … models of the factors and determinants of the existing interregional differences in the pattern of rural mortality from … presents the results of the study of the dynamics and pattern of external causes of rural mortality with the use of Rosstat …
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Are COVID fatalities in the US higher than in the EU, and if so, why?
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2020
The COVID crisis has severely hit both the United States and the European Union. Even though they are the wealthiest regions in the world, they differ substantially in economic performance, demographic characteristics, type of government, health systems, and measures undertaken to counteract...
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