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Visitations and transfers in non intact households
Del Boca, Daniela; Ribero, Rocío - 1999
Recent research reveals a negative impact of divorce on children's welfare as a consequence of the reduction in monetary and time contributions by the non-custodian parent. When the custody arrangement is sole custody, the variables that link the absent parent to the child are visitations and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607359
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Household behavior and the marriage market
Del Boca, Daniela; Flinn, Christopher J. - 2013
: efficiently or inefficiently. Under strong, but standard, assumptions regarding marriage market equilibria, marital sorting … efficient or not. We develop a new likelihood-based metric to compare marriage market fits under the two alternative behavioral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201289
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Household Behavior and the Marriage Market
Del Boca, Daniela - 2013
: efficiently or inefficiently. Under strong, but standard, assumptions regarding marriage market equilibria, marital sorting … efficient or not. We develop a new likelihood-based metric to compare marriage market fits under the two alternative behavioral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073853
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Population Dynamics and Long-Run Economic Growth
Casey, Gregory; Galor, Oded - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
policies affecting fertility, migration and human capital accumulation on growth and poverty alleviation. It underlines the … the return to education would trigger a virtuous cycle of fertility control, investment in education, poverty alleviation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011195668
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The Gender Gap, Fertility and Growth
Galor, Oded; Weil, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
This paper examines a novel mechanism linking fertility and growth. There are three components to the model. First … to men's. Second, increasing women's relative wages reduces fertility by raising the cost of children more than household … income. Third, lower fertility raises the level of capital per worker. This positive feedback loop generates a demographic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498148
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2008 Lawrence R. Klein lecture - Comparative economic development: Insights from unified growth theory
Galor, Oded - 2009
This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identifies the factors that have governed the pace of the transition from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284035
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2008 Lawrence R. Klein Lecture -- Comparative Economic Development: Insights from Unified Growth Theory
Galor, Oded - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identifies the factors that have governed the pace of the transition from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008577814
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2008 Lawrence R. Klein lecture : comparative economic development ; insights from unified growth theory
Galor, Oded - 2009
This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identifies the factors that have governed the pace of the transition from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003897830
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2008 Lawrence R. Klein Lecture - Comparative Economic Development : Insights from Unified Growth Theory
Galor, Oded - 2009
This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identifies the factors that have governed the pace of the transition from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199587
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Human genealogy reveals a selective advantage to moderate fecundity
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2019
This research presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity had maximized long-run reproductive success in the human population. Using a reconstructed genealogy for nearly half a million individuals in Quebec during the 1608-1800 period, we find that while a high fecundity was associated...
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