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The fertility effect of catastrophe: US hurricane births

Evans, Richard W.; Hu, Yingyao; Zhao, Zhong - 2007

this paper, we measure this fertility effect using storm advisory data and fertility data for the Atlantic and Gulf Coast … counties of the United States. We find that low-severity storm advisories are associated with a positive and significant … to negative. We also find that most of the changes in fertility resulting from storm advisories come from couples who …

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How disasters affect local labor markets: the effects of hurricanes in Florida

Belasen, Ariel R.; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2007

Exogenous shocks often impact a local labor market more than at the national level. This study improves upon the standard Difference in Difference (DD) approach by examining exogenous shocks using a Generalized Difference in Difference (GDD) econometric approach that identifies the effects of...

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How hurricanes affect employment and wages in local labor markets

Belasen, Ariel R.; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2008

This paper adopts a generalized-difference-in-difference (GDD) technique outlined in Ariel R. Belasen and Solomon W. Polachek (IZA Discussion Paper #2976) to examine the impact of hurricanes on the labor market. We find that earnings of the average worker in a Florida county rises over 4% within...

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The economic growth impact of hurricanes: evidence from US coastal counties

Strobl, Eric - 2008

We estimate the impact of hurricane strikes on local economic growth rates and how this is reflected in more aggregate growth patterns. To this end we assemble a panel data set of US coastal counties' growth rates and construct a hurricane destruction index that is based on a monetary loss...

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The re-building effect of hurricanes: evidence from employment in the US construction industry

Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank A. - 2008

labour demand framework. Our results show that destruction due to hurricanes causes on average an increase in country level …

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On the rise of health spending and longevity

Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Galama, Titus; … - 2009

We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and life expectancy over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that technological change along with the increase in the...

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The farm, the city, and the emergence of social security

Caucutt, Elizabeth M.; Cooley, Thomas F.; Guner, Nezih - 2008

In this paper we study the social, demographic and economic origins of social security. The data for the U.S. and for a cross section of countries make it clear that urbanization and industrialization are strongly associated with the rise of social insurance. We describe a model economy in which...

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The American high school graduation rate: trends and levels

Heckman, James Joseph; LaFontaine, Paul A. - 2007

This paper uses multiple data sources and a unified methodology to estimate the trends and levels of the U.S. high school graduation rate. Correcting for important biases that plague previous calculations, we establish that (a) the true high school graduation rate is substantially lower than the...

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Demography, capital flows and unemployment

Marchiori, Luca; Pierrard, Olivier; Sneessens, Henri R. - 2011

This paper contributes to the already vast literature on demography-induced international capital flows by examining the role of labor market imperfections and institutions. We setup a two-country overlapping generations model with search unemployment, which we calibrate on EU15 and US data....

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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico

Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - 2000

factors suggested by Cornelius (1992), namely, economic crisis in Mexico, the changing character of U.S. demand for labor, and …

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