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How Do Sex Ratios Affect Marriage and Labor Markets? Evidence from America's Second Generation
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2001
other social and economic variables. But the observed association between sex ratios and social and economic conditions may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270571
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Does it matter where you came from? : ancestry composition and economic performance of US counties, 1850 - 2010
Fulford, Scott L.; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2015
endowments of immigrant groups shape economic outcomes. In this paper, we use census micro-sample information to reconstruct the … county matter for local economic development and the channels through which the cultural, institutional, and educational … legacy of the country of origin affects economic outcomes in the US. Our results show that the evolution of the country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528617
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Wealth inequality in Sweden : what can we learn from capitalized income tax data?
Lundberg, Jacob; Waldenström, Daniel - 2016
This paper presents new estimates of wealth inequality in Sweden during 2000-2012, linking wealth register data up to 2007 and individually capitalized wealth based on income and property tax registers for the period thereafter when a repeal of the wealth tax stopped the collection of individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535999
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Canary in a coal mine : infant mortality, property values, and tradeoffs associated with mid-20th century air pollution
Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2016
Pollution is a common byproduct of economic activity. Although policymakers should account for both the benefits and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457393
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Wealth inequality in Sweden : what can we learn from capitalized income tax data?
Lundberg, Jacob; Waldenström, Daniel - 2016
This paper presents new estimates of wealth inequality in Sweden during 2000-2012, linking wealth register data up to 2007 and individually capitalized wealth based on income and property tax registers for the period thereafter when a repeal of the wealth tax stopped the collection of individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458797
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Reconsidering Returns
Hartzmark, Samuel M. - 2020
Investors' perception of performance is biased because the relevant measure, returns, is rarely displayed. Major indices ignore dividends, inducing mechanical underperformance on ex-dividend days. Newspapers are more pessimistic on these days, consistent with mistaking the index for a return....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012853729
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Canary in a Coal Mine : Infant Mortality, Property Values, and Tradeoffs Associated with Mid-20th Century Air Pollution
Clay, Karen - 2016
Pollution is a common byproduct of economic activity. Although policymakers should account for both the benefits and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993937
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Wealth and income inequality in the long run
Lieberknecht, Philipp; Vermeulen, Philip - 2022 - This version: May 12, 2022
This paper analyses the joint long-run evolution of wealth and income inequality. We show that top wealth and income shares were cointegrated over the past century in France and the US. We rationalise this finding using a two-agent version of the Solow growth model. In this framework, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202036
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How Do Sex Ratios Affect Marriage and Labor Markets? Evidence from America's Second Generation
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2021
other social and economic variables. But the observed association between sex ratios and social and economic conditions may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320789
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Who married, (to) whom, and where? : trends in marriage in the United States, 1850-1940
Olivetti, Claudia; Paserman, Marco Daniele; Salisbury, Laura - 2020
We present new findings about the relationship between marriage and socioeconomic background in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Imputing socioeconomic status of family of origin from first names, we document a socioeconomic gradient for women in the probability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012305893