Search Results - subject:"Age Structure"

Decoding India's Low Covid-19 Case Fatality rate

Philip, Minu - 2020

India's case fatality rate (CFR) under covid-19 is strikingly low, trending from 3% or more, to a current level of around 2.2%. The world average rate is far higher, at around 4%. Several observers have noted that this difference is at least partly due to India's younger age distribution. In...

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How do People Respond to Small Probability Events with Large, Negative Consequences?

Eichenbaum, Martin S. - 2020

We study how people react to small probability events with large negative consequences using the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic as a natural experiment. Our analysis is based on a unique administrative data set with anonymized monthly expenditures at the individual level. We find that older...

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Union membership peaks in midlife

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2020

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Decoding India's low Covid-19 case fatality rate

Philip, Minu; Ray, Debraj; Subramanian, S. - 2020

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Teacher Allocation and School Performance in Italy

Bryson, Alex - 2020

Italy's secondary school system has faced funding constraints for many years which limits availability of new permanent job slots for teachers. When permanent posts do arise they are allocated mostly on seniority while merit only plays a small role. Thus, the age distribution of teachers in...

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Decoding India's Low Covid-19 Case Fatality Rate

Philip, Minu - 2020

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Demographic structure and house prices in the United States : a reconciliation using metropolitan area data

Ann, Jihee; Park, Cheolbeom - 2020

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Demographic Effects on the Impact of Monetary Policy

Leahy, John Vincent - 2019

We study whether the effects of monetary policy are dependent on the demographic structure of the population. We exploit cross-sectional variation in the response of US states to an identified monetary policy shock. We find that there are three distinct age groups. In response to an increase in...

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Cities of Workers, Children, or Seniors? Age Structure and Economic Growth in a Global Cross-Section of Cities

Jedwab, Remi Camille - 2019

contrast, the effect of a city's age structure on its economic growth has been a hitherto largely neglected area of research … variety of historical and contemporary sources, it shows that there exists marked variation in the age structure of the world …'s largest cities, across cities and over time. It then studies how age structure affects economic growth for a global cross …

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Demographic Effects on the Impact of Monetary Policy

Leahy, John Vincent - 2019

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