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How Important Are Intergenerational Transfers of Time? a Macroeconomic Analysis.

CARDIA, Emanuela; NG, Serena - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2000

This paper examines the implications of intergenerational transfers of time and money for labor supply and capital … accumulation. Although intergenerational transfers of time in the form of grandparenting are as substantial as monetary transfers … in the data, little is known about the role and importance of time transfers. In this paper, we calibrate an overlapping …

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Endogenous fertility with a sibship size effect

Brezis, Elise S.; Dos Santos Ferreira, Rodolphe - 2015

Since the seminal work of Becker, the dynamics of endogenous fertility has been based on the trade-off faced by parents between the quantity and the quality of their children. However, in developing countries, when child labor is an indispensable source of household income, parents actually...

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Abortions and Inequality

Kocharkov, Georgi - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2012

In the last three decades over a million abortions were performed annually in the United States. Recent empirical studies assess the impact of legalization of abortions on living conditions of children and argue that legalization of abortions provides better living conditions and human capital...

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Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; … - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2015

Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college educated ones. Divorce has increased, more so for the non-college educated. Additionally, positive assortative mating has risen. Income inequality among households has also widened. A...

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Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; … - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2012

Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college educated ones. Divorce has increased, more so for the non-college educated vis-à-vis the college educated. Additionally, assortative mating has risen; i.e., people are more likely to...

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Explaining Income Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility : The Role of Fertility and Family Transfers

Daruich, Diego - 2016

How much of income inequality is due to initial opportunities relative to adult income risk? What factors determine intergenerational mobility? We study these questions with particular interest in the impact of two family choices: fertility and transfers. Fertility rates, which are higher for...

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Explaining intergenerational mobility : the role of fertility and family transfers

Daruich, Diego; Kozlowski, Julian - 2018

Poor families have more children and transfer less resources to them. This suggests that family decisions about fertility and transfers dampen intergenerational mobility. To evaluate the quantitative importance of this mechanism, we extend the standard heterogeneous agent life cycle model with...

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The temporal stability of children's neighborhood experiences : a follow-up from birth to age 15

Kleinepier, Tom; Ham, Maarten van - 2017

characteristics are often measured at a single point in time. Whether such cross-sectional measures serve as reliable proxies for … children's long-run neighborhood conditions depends on the stability in children's neighborhood experiences over time. We …. Children's neighborhood characteristics were found to be more stable over time with regard to ethnic composition than with …

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Samuelson's contributions to population theory and overlapping generations in economics

Lee, Ronald Demos - 2019

Paul Samuelson made a series of important contributions to population theory for humans and other species, evolutionary theory, and the theory of age structured life cycles in economic equilibrium and growth. The work is highly abstract but much of it was intended to illuminate issues of...

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Medical care within an OLG economy with realistic demography

Frankovic, Ivan; Kuhn, Michael; Wrzaczek, Stefan - 2016

We study the role of health care within a continuous time economy of overlapping generations subject to endogenous …

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