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The German Local Population Database (GPOP), 1871 to 2019

Rösel, Felix - 2022

I present the first database of historical local population figures for all Germany. The German Local Population … Database (GPOP) includes total population in 1871, 1910, 1939, 1946, 1961, 1987, 1996, 2011, and 2019 for the universe of all …-collected and assembled from more than 50 sources. The data reflect 150 years of regional development and disparities in Germany …

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Population, population density, and technological change

Klasen, Stephan; Nestmann, Thorsten - 2004

, population density, population growth, and economic development, both at aggregated and disaggregated levels. …In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where … income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs …

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Will social security and Medicare remain viable as the U.S. population is aging? : an update

Bohn, Henning - 2003

security system-broadly defined to include Medicare-faces significant financial problems as the result of an aging population … growing GDP-share of medical spending is an efficient response to an aging population. Thus viability is more a political …

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Marriage and consumption insurance : what s love got to do with it?

Hess, Gregory D. - 2001

This paper explores the role of marriage when markets are incomplete so that individuals cannot diversify their idiosyncratic labor income risk. Ceteris paribus, an individual would prefer to marry a hedge (i.e. a spouse whose income is negatively correlated with her own) as it raises her...

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Financing retirement in the European Union

Bovenberg, Ary Lans - 2002

This paper explores how EU countries can address various challenges (including the aging of the population) affecting …

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Does the balance of power within a family matter? : the case of the retirement equity act

Aura, Saku - 2002

This paper studies within-family decision making regarding investment in income protection for surviving spouses. A change in US pension law (the Retirement Equity Act of 1984) is used as an instrument to derive predictions both from a simple Nash-bargaining model of the household and from the...

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Do anti-immigration attitudes discourage immigration? : evidence from a new instrument

Bacher, Etienne; Beine, Michel; Rapoport, Hillel - 2025

We investigate the effect of anti-immigration attitudes on immigration plans to Europe. We propose a new instrument for attitudes toward immigration, namely, the number of country nationals killed in terrorist attacks taking place outside of Europe. Our first-stage results confirm that such...

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Opium for the masses? : conflict-induced narcotics production in Afghanistan

Lind, Jo Thori; Moene, Karl Ove; Willumsen, Fredrik - 2009

We show that the recent rise in Afghan opium production is caused by violent conflicts. Violence destroys roads and irrigation, crucial to alternative crops, and weakens local incentives to rebuild infrastructure and enforce law and order. Exploiting a unique data set, we show that Western...

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Economic and political liberalizations

Giavazzi, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2004

This paper studies empirically the effects of and the interactions amongst economic and political liberalizations. Economic liberalizations are measured by a widely used indicator that captures the scope of the market in the economy, and in particular of policies towards freer international...

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The role of the state in economic development

Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2004

This paper discusses the recent literature on the role of the state in economic development. It concludes that …

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