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of a long-run effect of school starting age on student outcomes. This paper uses data on the population of Norway to …
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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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suited to share labor income risk,I show that the combination of stochastic labor income and stochastic populationgrowth may …
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The evidence strongly suggests a robust negative relationship between income and fertility, anda positive relationship … between income and longevity. This is puzzling for standard dynamicmodels. For instance, altruistic models that use the most … posi-tive longevity-income relationship for rich individuals, but also predict a positive fertility …
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In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings aredistributed across the population. In the years since Mincer’s seminal work, he as well as hisstudents and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching importantconclusions about a whole array...
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We construct a matching model on the marriage market along more than one characteristic, where individuals have preferences over physical attractiveness (proxied by anthropometric characteristics) and market and household productivity of potential mates (proxied by socioeconomic...
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This paper analyzes the life-cycle career costs associated with child rearing and decomposes their effects into unearned wages (as women drop out of the labor market), loss of human capital, and selection into more child-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility,...
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the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1999 to 2009 for black, white, and inter-racial couples. We consider the …
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We employ data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate income to health causality. To account for … Granger-type causality running from income to health for married men but not for women or single men. These effects are more …
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idiosyncratic labor income risk. Ceteris paribus, an individual would prefer to marry a hedge (i.e. a spouse whose income is … to agents income is early, then those who in fact married hedges (and for good reason) are the ones most likely to be … resolution of uncertainty to agents income is predominantly later, then those who in fact marry hedges will in fact be less …
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