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at 1.4 million, while military losses are estimated at 1.4 million too. Thus, the fertility decline doubled the … demographic impact of the war. I construct a model of fertility choices where a household faces three shocks in a war: (i) an … fertility before the war. I use military casualties and income data to calibrate the war. The model accounts for 91% of the …
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.4 millions over 4 years while military losses are estimated at 1.4 millions too. Thus, the fertility decline doubled the … demographic impact of the war. Why did fertility decline so much? The conventional wisdom is that fertility fell below its optimal … optimal fertility choice where a household in its childbearing years during the war faces three shocks: (i) an increased …
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over 4 years while military losses are estimated at 1.4 million too. Thus, the fertility decline doubled the demographic … impact of the war. Why did fertility decline so much? The conventional wisdom is that fertility fell below its optimal level … because of the absence of men gone to war. I challenge this view using the case of France. I construct a model of fertility …
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.36 millions over 4 years while military losses are estimated at 1.4 millions. In short, the fertility decline doubled the … demographic impact of the War. Why did fertility decline so much? The conventional wisdom is that fertility fell below its optimal … model of optimal fertility choice where households reaching their childbearing years on the eve of WWI face a loss of …
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.36 millions over 4 years while military losses are estimated at 1.4 millions. In short, the fertility decline doubled the … demographic impact of the war. Why did fertility decline so much? The conventional wisdom is that fertility fell below its optimal … model of optimal fertility choice where a household in its childbearing years during World War I faces a partially …
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.36 millions over 4 years while military losses are estimated at 1.4 millions. In short, the fertility decline doubled the … demographic impact of the war. Why did fertility decline so much? The conventional wisdom is that fertility fell below its optimal … optimal fertility choice where a household in its childbearing years during the war faces a partially- compensated loss of its …
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.4 millions over 4 years while military losses are estimated at 1.4 millions too. Thus, the fertility decline doubled the … demographic impact of the war. Why did fertility decline so much? The conventional wisdom is that fertility fell below its optimal … optimal fertility choice where a household in its childbearing years during the war faces three shocks: (i) an increased …
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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 19th and 20th centuries saw a transformation in contraceptive technologies and their take up. This led to a sexual revolution, which witnessed a rise in premarital sex and out-of-wedlock births, and a decline in marriage. The impact of contraception on married and single life is analyzed...
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We use a Schumpeterian model in which both the economy's growth rate and its volatility are endogenously determined to assess some welfare and policy implications associated with business cycle fluctuations. Because it features a higher average growth rate than its acyclical counterpart,...
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