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Social Security and Demographic Trends : Theory and Evidence from the International Experience

Ehrlich, Isaac; Kim, Jinyoung - 2007

The worldwide problem with pay-as-you-go, defined-benefits social security systems is not just financial. Through a dynamic, overlapping-generations model where forming a family and bearing and educating children are choice variables, we show that social security taxes and benefits generate...

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Natural Hazards and Child Health

Pörtner, Claus C. - 2010

This paper examines how the occurrence of natural disasters affect health status of children using data from Guatemala. Despite a large literature on child health there is relatively little work on how shocks from natural hazards affect the health of children. Using three rounds of DHS data...

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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 … induced the westward migration, while population growth was responsible for the investment in productive land …

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What Role Does Marriage Play in Urban Africa? Evidence from a High HIV Area in Kenya

Luke, Nancy; Munshi, Kaivan - 2010

The marriage institution, which plays an important role in regulating sexual activity in most societies, traditionally placed few restrictions on male extra-marital relationships in sub-Saharan Africa. If this traditional pattern continues to remain in place today, then it may help explain the...

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Intergenerational Transfers : The Ignored Role of Time

Bhaumik, Sumon K. - 2008

The literature on inter vivos and intergenerational transfers has largely focused on the possible determinants of such transfers. Specifically, much of the empirical work has examined whether transfers are driven by altruistic relationship between "dynastic" households. However, the empirical...

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The Relationship Between Population Growth and Economic Growth in Mexico

Garza-Rodriguez, Jorge - 2016

The relationship between population growth and economic growth is of great interest both for demographers and for … development economists. Considering the case of Mexico, the objective of this study was to analyze the dynamic relationship … between population growth and economic growth, through a structural break cointegration analysis for the period 1960-2014. The …

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Preparing a Referee Report : Guidelines and Perspectives

Berk, Jonathan - 2016

Peer review is fundamental to the efficacy of the scientific process. We draw from our experience both as editors, authors and association representatives to provide a set of guidelines for referees in preparing their reports and cover letters to journal editors. While our document is directed...

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Soft Lands Breed Soft Men? The Climatic Roots of Risk Preferences

Bolhuis, Marijn - 2017

sedentary lifestyle, leading to a population increase because of lower child-rearing costs. Moreover, the findings are in line … choose to insure against adverse population shocks. All in all this study suggests that cultural differences in attitudes …

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Family Structure and Home Ownership : Evidence from China

Wang, Shun - 2017

This paper studies how individuals, particularly low-income individuals, have financed housing purchases since the housing market was privatized in urban China in the 1990s. To the surprise of many policy makers and economists, more than 80% of the households in urban China owned private housing...

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Glushakova, Olga - 2017

provisions of the concept of strategic management in managing the processes of territorial development. We believe that … sustainable socio-economic development of the territories in the conditions of increasing speed of changes in the external … architecture oriented to the stability of territorial development and the improvement of the quality of life. Criteria of …

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