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‘The Child is Father of the Man:’ Implications for the Demographic Transition

de la Croix, David; Licandro, Omar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We propose a new theory of the demographic transition based on the evidence that body development during childhood is an important predictor of adult life expectancy. Fertility, childhood development, longevity, education and income growth all result from individual decisions. Parents face a...

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Growth and Epidemic Diseases

Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We study the formation of human capital and its transmission across generations when a society is assailed by an epidemic disease such as AIDS. We establish that the disease can severely retard economic growth, even to the point of leading to an economic collapse. We also show that the epidemic...

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Collective Labour Supply: Heterogeneity and Non-Participation

Blundell, Richard William; Chiappori, Pierre-André; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We present identification and estimation results for the 'collective' model of labour supply in which there are …

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Subprime Consumer Credit Demand: Evidence from a Lender's Pricing Experiment

Alan, Sule; Lóránth, Gyöngyi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Using a unique panel data set from a UK credit card company, we analyze the interest rate sensitivity of subprime credit card borrowers. In addition to all individual transactions and loan terms, we also have access to details of a randomized interest rate experiment conducted by the lender on...

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To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda

Fischer, Greg; Karlan, Dean S.; McConnell, Margaret; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

and hence more people learn about the product. On the other hand, lower prices may serve as price anchors and, through a … for sale at market prices. In line with prior studies, when the product has potential for positive learning, we do not … evidence of price anchors: future demand is lower after a free distribution than after a distribution at market prices. …

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Consistency in Simple vs. Complex Choices over the Life Cycle

Brocas, Isabelle; Carrillo, Juan D; Combs, T. Dalton; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Employing a variant of GARP, we study consistency in aging by comparing the choices of younger adults (YA) and older adults (OA) in a 'simple', two-good and a `complex' three-good condition. We find that OA perform worse than YA in the complex condition but similar in the simple condition....

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Kinky Choices, Dictators and Split Might: A Non-Cooperative Model for Household Consumption and Labor Supply

Boone, Jan; van der Wiel, Karen; Vermeulen, Frederic - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

It is unlikely that husbands and wives always agree on exactly what public goods to buy. Nor do they necessarily agree on how many hours to work with obvious consequences for the household budget. We therefore model consumption and labor supply behavior of a couple in a non-cooperative setting...

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Uncertainty and Consumer Durables Adjustment

Bertola, Giuseppe; Guiso, Luigi; Pistaferri, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We study infrequent durables stock adjustment by consumers who also derive utility from non-durable consumption flows, in the presence of idiosyncratic income uncertainty. We first characterize how the extent of uncertainty bears theoretically on the cross-sectional distribution of the...

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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality

Modin, Bitte; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …

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Shopping around? How households adjusted food spending over the Great Recession

Griffith, Rachel; O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Over the Great Recession real wages stagnated and unemployment increased. Concurrently, food prices rose sharply …

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