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Human Development in Africa: A Long-run Perspective

Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Long-run trends in Africa’s well-being are provided on the basis of a new index of human development, alternative to … experienced in other developing regions. Within Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa has fallen steadily behind the North since mid-20th …

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The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis

Doepke, Matthias; Hazan, Moshe; Maoz, Yishay D - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

the war face increased labour-market competition, which impels them to exit the labour market and start having children …

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A Colonial Legacy of African Gender Inequality? Evidence from Christian Kampala, 1895-2011

Meier zu Selhausen, Felix; Weisdorf, Jacob - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

The colonial legacy of African underdevelopment is widely debated but hard to document. We use occupational statistics from Protestant marriage registers of historical Kampala to investigate the hypothesis that African gender inequality and female disempowerment are rooted in colonial times. We...

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Were American Parents Really Selfish? Child Labour in the 19th Century

Bhaskar, Venkataraman; Gupta, Bishnupriya - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

children. Contrary to Parsons and Goldin (1989), we find that parental location choices were dictated by constraints rather …

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Voting with your Children: A Positive Analysis of Child Labour Laws

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We develop a positive theory of the adoption of child-labour regulation, based on two key mechanisms. First, parental decisions on family size interact with their preferences for child-labour regulation. Second, the supply of child labour affects skilled and unskilled wages. If policies are...

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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: The Rise in Premarital Sex and its Destigmitization

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage … undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their … children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …

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Mitigating long-run health effects of drought: Evidence from South Africa

Dinkelman, Taryn - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Drought is Africa’s primary natural disaster and a pervasive source of income risk for poor households. This paper …

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The Marginal Cost of Public Funds: Hours of Work versus Labor Force Participation

Kleven, Henrik; Kreiner, Claus Thustrup - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper extends the theory and measurement of the marginal cost of public funds (MCF) to account for labour force participation responses. Our work is motivated by the emerging consensus in the empirical literature that extensive (participation) responses are more important than intensive...

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Labour Market Institutions and Demographic Employment Patterns

Bertola, Giuseppe; Blau, Francine D; Kahn, Lawrence - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Using data from 17 OECD countries over the 1960-96 period and a simple theoretical framework, we investigate the impact of institutions on the relative employment of youth, women, and older individuals. Empirically, the employment prospects of these groups are especially affected by poorly...

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International Labor Standards and the Political Economy of Child Labor Regulation

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Child labor is a persistent phenomenon in many developing countries. In recent years, support has been growing among rich-country governments and consumer groups for the use of trade policies, such as product boycotts and the imposition of international labor standards, to reduce child labor in...

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