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A Two-Tiered Demographic System: "Insiders" and "Outsiders" in Three Swabian Communities, 1558-1914

Guinnane, Timothy W.; Ogilvie, Sheilagh C. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2013

Württemberg (southern Germany) from the mid-sixteenth to the early twentieth century. Using high-quality registers of births …

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Country Patterns of Behavior on Broader Dimensions

Ranis, Gustav; Stewart, Frances; Samman, Emma - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2007

This paper adopts a more expansive definition of Human Development than that encompassed by the Human Development Index in order to explore diverse country patterns of behavior in relation to these broadened dimensions. We proceed by first identifying the dimensions to be investigated and...

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Human Development: Beyond the HDI

Ranis, Gustav; Stewart, Frances; Samman, Emma - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2005

This paper explores ways of enlarging the measurement and understanding of Human Development (HD) beyond the relatively reductionist Human Development Index. From the extensive literature on well-being, we derived eleven categories of HD. Within each category, we then identified a potential set...

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Financial Vergangenheitsbewältigung: The 1953 London Debt Agreement

Guinnane, Timothy W. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2004

The 1953 London Debt Agreement settled Germany's debts from the period between the two world wars, and allowed the … percent and gave the debtors a much longer period to repay. One interesting clause in the Agreement allowed Germany to … problems that would arise with making any part of the Agreement contingent on events Germany could influence. Recent advocates …

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Population and the Economy in Germany, 1800-1990

Guinnane, Timothy W. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1998

Germany's turbulent history in the past two centuries has left its mark on her population. The industrialization of the … internal migration. Germany's relatively late economic development left the country impoverished relative to North America and …, Germany experienced a sharp reduction in fertility and mortality rates during the late nineteenth and early twentieth …

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The Fertility Transition in Bavaria

Brown, John C.; Guinnane, Timothy W. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2001

other parts of Germany. The European Fertility Project, the most influential study of the European fertility transition …

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