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Dynamics and Stagnation in the Malthusian Epoch

Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2011

This paper examines the central hypothesis of the influential Malthusian theory, according to which improvements in the technological environment during the pre-industrial era had generated only temporary gains in income per capita, eventually leading to a larger, but not significantly richer,...

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Male Earnings, Marriageable Men, and Nonmarital Fertility : Evidence from the Fracking Boom

Kearney, Melissa S. - 2017

There has been a well-documented retreat from marriage among less educated individuals in the U.S. and non-marital childbearing has become the norm among young mothers and mothers with low levels of education. One hypothesis is that the declining economic position of men in these populations is...

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Who Owns Children and Does it Matter?

Schoonbroodt, Alice - 2010

failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention. The …) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents … transfer floor is binding, fertility choices are inefficient. We show how this inefficiency relates to dynamic inefficiency in …

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Happiness Adaptation to Income Beyond "Basic Needs"

Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert - 2021

We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985-2000, and data on the well-being of over 600,000 people in a panel of European countries from 1975-2002, shows different...

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Superstar Cities

Gyourko, Joseph - 2012

Differences in house price and income growth rates between 1950 and 2000 across metropolitan areas have led to an ever-widening gap in housing values and incomes between the typical and highest-priced locations. We show that the growing spatial skewness in house prices and incomes are related...

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Wage Risk and Employment Risk Over the Life Cycle

Low, Hamish - 2010

We specify a structural life-cycle model of consumption, labour supply and job mobility in an economy with search frictions that allows us to distinguish between different sources of risk and to estimate their effects. The sources of risk are shocks to productivity, job destruction, the process...

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Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Corporate and Financial Sectors

Bertrand, Marianne; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2010

This paper assesses the relative importance of various explanations for the gender gap in career outcomes for highly-educated workers in the U.S. corporate and financial sectors. The careers of MBAs, who graduated between 1990 and 2006 from a top U.S. business school, are studied to understand...

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Retirement Income Security and Well-Being in Canada

Baker, Michael - 2010

A large international literature has documented the labor market distortions associated with social security benefits for near-retirees. In this paper, we investigate the 'other side' of social security programs, seeking to document improvements in wellbeing arising from the provision of public...

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Recent Trends in Height by Gender and Ethnicity in the Us in Relation to Levels of Income

Komlos, John - 2010

Height trends since World War II are analyzed using the most recent NHANES survey released in 2006. After declining for about a generation, the height of adult white men and women began to increase among the birth cohorts of c. 1975-1986, i.e., those who reached adulthood within the past decade...

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Labor Supply Responses to Marginal Social Security Benefits : Evidence from Discontinuities

Liebman, Jeffrey B. - 2010

A key question for Social Security reform is whether workers currently perceive the link on the margin between the Social Security taxes they pay and the Social Security benefits they will receive. We estimate the effects of the marginal Social Security benefits that accrue with additional...

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