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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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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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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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While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...
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Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of one-year mortality rates and longer run in … using a unique dataset from Norway, we examine both short-run and long-run outcomes for the same cohorts. We find that birth …
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While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056645
Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of one-year mortality rates and longer run in … using a unique dataset from Norway, we examine both short-run and long-run outcomes for the same cohorts. We find that birth …
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estimated elasticity of intergenerational transmission of income of approximately .2 …
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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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the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1999 to 2009 for black, white, and inter-racial couples. We consider the …
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