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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey

Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Schupp, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

willingness to take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to height and parental education …

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Long Run Impacts of Income Shocks: Wine and Phylloxera in 19th Century France

Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Postel-Vinay, Gilles; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper provides estimates of the long-term effects on height and health of a large income shock experienced in … regional variation in the timing of this shock to identify its effects. We examine the effects on the adult height, health, and … life expectancy of children born in the years and regions affected by the Phylloxera. The shock decreased long run height …

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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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Raising the Financial Costs of Children and Fertility Responses: Evidence from the Kibbutz

Ebenstein, Avraham; Hazan, Moshe; Simhon, Avi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Prior to 1996, Israelis in collective communities (kibbutzim) shared the costs of raising children equally. This paper examines the impact of the privatization of kibbutzim on fertility behavior among members. We find that fertility declined by 6-15 percent following the shift to privatization....

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Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes

Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Recent theoretical contributions depart from the usual practice of treating individual attitude endowments as a black box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs...

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Natural Selection and the Evolution of Life Expectancy

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This research advances an evolutionary growth theory that captures the pattern of life expectancy in the process of development, shedding new light on the sources of the remarkable rise in life expectancy since the Agricultural Revolution. The theory suggests that social, economic and...

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The Effects on Stature of Poverty, Family Size and Birth Order: British Children in the 1930s

Hatton, Timothy J.; Martin, Richard M. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

a negative effect on height. This latter effect is closely associated with overcrowding and particularly with the degree … evidence collected retrospectively, which indicates that the effects of childhood conditions on height persisted into adulthood. …

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Does the Lunar Cycle Affect Birth and Deaths?

Gans, Joshua S.; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

There is a commonplace notion that full moons affect natality and mortality. To test this theory, we obtain daily births and deaths data from Australia, covering all 10,592 days from 1 January 1975 to 31 December 2003. We find that full moons are not associated with any significant change in the...

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Minding the Shop: The Case of Obstetrics Conferences

Gans, Joshua S.; Leigh, Andrew; Varganova, Elena - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007

We estimate the impact of annual obstetricians and gynecologists’ conferences on births in Australia and the United States. In both countries, the number of births drops by 1 to 4 percent during the days on which these conferences are held. We argue that for this reason professional obstetrics...

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