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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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Does community context have important bearings on the divorce rate? A fixed-effects study of twenty Norwegian first-marriage cohorts

Lyngstad, Torkild H. - 2006

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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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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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Does grief transfer across generations? : in-utero deaths and child outcomes

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2014

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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From the cradle to the labor market? : The effect of birth weight on adult outcomes

Black, Sandra E. (contributor); … - 2005

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 …