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The Evolution of Income and Fertility Inequalities over the Course of Economic Development: A Human Capital Perspective

Ehrlich, Isaac; Kim, Jinyoung - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

development. In our model, heterogeneous families determine fertility and children's human capital, and generations are linked via …

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The Determinants of Mortality

Cutler, David M.; Deaton, Angus; Lleras-Muney, Adriana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Mortality rates have fallen dramatically over time, starting in a few countries in the 18th century, and continuing to fall today. In just the past century, life expectancy has increased by over 30 years. At the same time, mortality rates remain much higher in poor countries, with a difference...

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Mortality, Fertility, and Persistent Income Inequality

Sarkar, Jayanta - In: Southern Economic Journal 75 (2008) 2, pp. 332-350

model can also explain the behavior of aggregate fertility andmortality rates for countries at various stages of development …

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Action, Function, & Structure; Interpreting Network Effects on Behavior in Rural Malawi

Stecklov, Guy; Weinreb, Alejandro Alexander - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2007

of interaction. Little of this earlier work has informed empirical research in demography or development-related research …

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The American Frontier: Technology versus Immigration

Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - Economie d'Avant Garde - 2004

What drove western population growth in the U.S. during the 19th century? The facts are: (i) Natural increase was … up to 80% of population growth in some regions. A general equilibrium model is proposed, with three ingredients …. The model is simulated. It accounts well for the time-series decomposition of population growth between migration and …

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Immigration and Outsourcing: A General Equilibrium Analysis

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Wall, Howard J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper analyzes the issues of immigration and outsourcing in a general-equilibrium model of international factor mobility. In our model, legal immigration is controlled through a quota, while outsourcing is determined both by the firms (in response to market conditions) and through...

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International Migration in the Long-Run: Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Most labor scarce overseas countries moved decisively to restrict their immigration during the first third of the 20th century. This autarchic retreat from unrestricted and even publiclysubsidized immigration in the first global century before World War I to the quotas and bans introduced...

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Women Prefer Larger Governments: Growth, Structural Transformation and Government Size

Cavalcanti, Tiago; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The increase in income per capita is accompanied, in virtually all countries, by two changes in the structure of the economy, namely an increase in the share of government spending in GDP and an increase in female labour force participation. This paper suggests that these two changes are...

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From Farmers to Merchants, Voluntary Conversions and Diaspora: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish History

Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

the size of the Jewish population from 4.5 million to 1.2 million. Second, the Jewish farmers who invested in education …

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The Output Cost of Gender Discrimination: A Model-Based Macroeconomic Estimate

Cavalcanti, Tiago; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Gender-based discrimination is a pervasive and costly phenomenon. To a greater or lesser extent, all economies present a gender wage gap, associated with lower female labour force participation rates and higher fertility. This paper presents a growth model where saving, fertility and labour...

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