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technologies to new sectors and regions. This paper examines the evolution of the temperature-mortality relationship over the … adaptations that may be useful in the coming decades. There are three primary findings. First, the mortality impact of days with a … 14,000 fewer fatalities annually than if the pre-1960 impacts of high temperature on mortality still prevailed. Second …
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technologies to new sectors and regions. This paper examines the evolution of the temperature-mortality relationship over the … adaptations that may be useful in the coming decades. There are three primary findings. First, the mortality impact of days with a … 14,000 fewer fatalities annually than if the pre-1960 impacts of high temperature on mortality still prevailed. Second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025307
This paper presents an analysis of the differential role of mortality for the optimal schooling and retirement age when … important contributions. First, we provide the conditions under which a decrease in mortality leads to a longer education period … and an earlier retirement age. Second, those conditions are decomposed into a Ben-Porath mechanism and a lifetime …
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; mortality ; fertility ; nuptiality ; guilds …. Mortality was less sensitive to shocks than one would expect, while nuptiality was especially sensitive. -- Malthusian models …
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Introduction: Little current research examines associations between infant mortality and US states' funding for family … associations between unintended pregnancy and infant mortality. Material and methods: We obtained publicly available data on state … capita spending (per woman, age 15–44). State-level covariates comprised: Title X and Medicaid per capita funding, fertility …
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Business cycles are costlier and stabilization policies more beneficial than widely thought. This paper shows that all business cycles are asymmetric and resemble mini "disasters." By this we mean that growth is pervasively fat-tailed and non-Gaussian. Using long-run historical data, we show...
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We use recently published long-run microdata (SCF+) to investigate generational wealth dynamics in the U.S. over the last seven decades. We document that the median wealth of people born in the first half of the 20th century increased from one ten-year birth cohort to the next. For people born...
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We use recently published long-run microdata (SCF+) to investigate generational wealth dynamics in the U.S. over the last seven decades. We document that the median wealth of people born in the first half of the 20th century increased from one ten-year birth cohort to the next. For people born...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014436549