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What Determines Immigrations' Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

links between these economic relationships and immigration policy. It concludes with an explanation for the apparent … difference in immigration's impact in the two global centuries, and thus on policy. …

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A Dual Policy Paradox: Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labour-Scarce Economies?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost … two centuries? This paper seeks answers to this dual policy paradox by exploring the fundamentals which have influenced … the evolution of policy: the decline in the costs of migration and its impact on immigrant selectivity, a secular switch …

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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

discrimination are indeed quite substantial and should be a central concern in any macroeconomic policy aimed at increasing output …

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Equilibrium Allele Distribution in Trading Populations

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper derives the conditions under which fitness-reducing alleles can survive in a long-run stationary equilibrium for a trading population, extending the results in Saint-Paul (2002) for arbitrary systems of sexual reproduction.

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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper documents a stylized fact not well appreciated in the literature. The Third World has been undergoing an emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in the late 1980s the early 1990s. The current...

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Partner Choice and the Marital College Premium: Analyzing Marital Patterns Over Several Decades

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Salanié, Bernard; Weiss, Yoram - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We construct a structural model of household decision-making and matching and estimate the returns to schooling within marriage. We consider agents with idiosyn- cratic preferences for marriage that may be correlated with education, and we allow the education levels of spouses to interact in...

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Partial Insurance and Investments in Children

Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Consistent with the...

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A Darwinian Perspective on "Exchange Rate Undervaluation"

Du, Qingyuang; Wei, Shang-Jin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Though the real exchange rate is a key price for most economies, our understanding of its determinants is still incomplete. This paper studies the implications of status competition in the marriage market for the real exchange rate. In theory, a rise in the sex ratio (increasing relative surplus...

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The New Stylized Facts About Income and Subjective Well-Being

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to...

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This Is Only a Test? Long-Run Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout

Black, Sandra; Bütikofer, Aline; Devereux, Paul J.; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Research increasingly shows that differences in endowments at birth need not be genetic but instead are influenced by environmental factors while the fetus is in the womb. In addition, these differences may persist well beyond childhood. In this paper, we study one such environmental factor –...

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