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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428605
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The reproductive context of cohabitation in comparative perspective
Sweeney, Megan; Castro-Martín, Teresa; Mills, Melinda - In: Demographic Research 32 (2015) 5, pp. 147-182
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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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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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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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Leibnitz integral rule and its application to the business firm's longevity problem
Gander, James P. - 2020
The paper takes the Leibnitz Integral Rule (LIR) under variable integration limits and demonstrates how it can be applied to a business firm's dynamic problem of determining its optimum level of investment activity, when the longevity (life span) of the investment is itself a variable determined...
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Unemployment and mortality : evidence from the PSID
Halliday, Timothy - 2013
In this paper, we use the death file from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate the relationship between … county-level unemployment rates and mortality risk. After partialling out important confounding factors including baseline … with higher mortality risk for working-aged men. In particular, we show that a one percentage point increase in the …
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Effects of Restrictive Abortion Legislation on Cohort Mortality Evidence from 19th Century Law Variation
Lahey, Joanna; Wanamaker, Marianne H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
frequently. These mortality effects diminish with age, potentially reversing at older ages as a result of disease immunity or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334419
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Toxified to the Bone : Early-Life and Childhood Exposure to Lead and Men's Old-Age Mortality
Fletcher, Jason; Noghanibehambari, Hamid - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
's development. Yet little is known about long-run effects of lead exposure during early-life on old-age mortality outcomes. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447278