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The U.S. Demographic Transition
Greenwood, Jeremy; Seshadri, Ananth - 2007
given here is that technological progress in agriculture and manufacturing explains these facts. This paper is published in …
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The U.S. Demographic Transition
Greenwood, Jeremy; Seshadri, Ananth - 2002
given here is that technological progress in agriculture and manufacturing explains these facts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014120579
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The U.S. Westward Expansion
Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2008
The U.S. economic development in the nineteenth century was characterized by the westward movement of population and the accumulation of productive land in the West. This paper presents a model of migration and land improvement to identify the quantitatively important forces driving this...
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The U.S. demographic transition
Greenwood, Jeremy; Seshadri, Ananth - In: The American economic review 92 (2002) 2, pp. 153-159
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The US demographic transition
Greenwood, Jeremy (contributor);  … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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The US demographic transition
Greenwood, Jeremy; Seshadri, Ananth - 2002
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The Contribution of Skilled Immigrants to US Innovation in the First Half of the 20th Century
Cohen, Elior - 2020
The first-half of the 20th century is characterized by mass migration from Europe to the US and rapid technological progress. Exploiting national immigration policy changes together with historical settlement patterns of immigrants' across US counties, I estimate the effect of skilled...
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Is there still son preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2017
headship and raised fertility. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for … lower fertility. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference among natives in their fertility decisions …, we do find a positive fertility effect, suggesting son preference in fertility among this group. This interpretation is …
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Social change
Greenwood, Jeremy (contributor); Guner, Nezih (contributor) - 2008
A society is characterized by the common attitudes and behavior of its members. Such behavior reflects purposive decision making by individuals, given the environment they live in. Thus, as technology changes, so might social norms. There were big changes in social norms during the 20th century,...
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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 … the analysis on two datasets: the American Community Survey and the Fertility Supplement of the Current Population Survey …
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