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model can also explain the behavior of aggregate fertility andmortality rates for countries at various stages of development …
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of interaction. Little of this earlier work has informed empirical research in demography or development-related research …
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reduction in the size of the Jewish population from about 4.5 million to 1.2 million. Second, the Jewish farmers who invested in …
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Exogenous variation in fertility from parental preferences for sex-mix among their children is used to identify the causal effect of family size on several measures associated with either the allocation of resources towards children within the household or the outcomes of these investments....
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at a fixed wage-income level because population growth tends to outstrip real output growth. Dynamic equilibrium with … constant income and population is achieved through equilibrating adjustments in "positive checks" (mortality, starvation) and … economic stagnation with high fertility and mortality and constant population and income, as predicted by Malthus, but also for …
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Klaus Deininger and Lyn Squire have recently produced an inequality data base for a panel of countries from the 1960s to the 1990s. We use these data to decompose the sources of inequality into three central parts: the demographic or cohort size effect; the so-called Kuznets Curve or demand...
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such valuations differ is overstated when there are increasing returns to population and is understated under decreasing …
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. If repeated bouts of the plague reduced the population of Florence in the fourteenth century and kept it low into the …
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Development Report 2009. This paper makes several important contributions to an already rich literature about public opinion and … first published attempt to explore attitudes in countries in all parts of the human development spectrum. While the data …
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Between 1958 and 1961, China experienced one of the worse famines in her history. Birth rates fell during these years and recovered immediately afterwards. The famine also adversely affected the health of these cohorts. This paper provides nonparametric estimates of the total effects of the...
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