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Optimal fertility during World War I
Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2011
.36 millions over 4 years while military losses are estimated at 1.4 millions. In short, the fertility decline doubled the … demographic impact of the War. Why did fertility decline so much? The conventional wisdom is that fertility fell below its optimal … model of optimal fertility choice where households reaching their childbearing years on the eve of WWI face a loss of …
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Optimal fertility during World War I
Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2012
.36 millions over 4 years while military losses are estimated at 1.4 millions. In short, the fertility decline doubled the … demographic impact of the war. Why did fertility decline so much? The conventional wisdom is that fertility fell below its optimal … model of optimal fertility choice where a household in its childbearing years during World War I faces a partially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015230268
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Optimal fertility during World War I
Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2012
.36 millions over 4 years while military losses are estimated at 1.4 millions. In short, the fertility decline doubled the … demographic impact of the war. Why did fertility decline so much? The conventional wisdom is that fertility fell below its optimal … optimal fertility choice where a household in its childbearing years during the war faces a partially- compensated loss of its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015230325
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Optimal fertility during World War I
Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2012
.4 millions over 4 years while military losses are estimated at 1.4 millions too. Thus, the fertility decline doubled the … demographic impact of the war. Why did fertility decline so much? The conventional wisdom is that fertility fell below its optimal … optimal fertility choice where a household in its childbearing years during the war faces three shocks: (i) an increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015231888
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Fertility and Wars: the case of world war I in France
Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2012
.4 millions over 4 years while military losses are estimated at 1.4 millions too. Thus, the fertility decline doubled the … demographic impact of the war. Why did fertility decline so much? The conventional wisdom is that fertility fell below its optimal … optimal fertility choice where a household in its childbearing years during the war faces three shocks: (i) an increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015234076
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Fertility and Wars: the case of world war I in France
Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2013
over 4 years while military losses are estimated at 1.4 million too. Thus, the fertility decline doubled the demographic … impact of the war. Why did fertility decline so much? The conventional wisdom is that fertility fell below its optimal level … because of the absence of men gone to war. I challenge this view using the case of France. I construct a model of fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015235200
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Fertility and Wars: the case of world war I in France
Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2013
at 1.4 million, while military losses are estimated at 1.4 million too. Thus, the fertility decline doubled the … demographic impact of the war. I construct a model of fertility choices where a household faces three shocks in a war: (i) an … fertility before the war. I use military casualties and income data to calibrate the war. The model accounts for 91% of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015236624
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Data-driven innovation and growth
Li, Hao; Wang, Gaowang; Yang, Liyang - 2024
We develop an endogenous growth model where data drives innovation. In this model, big data fosters quality improvements by influencing the likelihood and magnitude of successful quality-enhancing innovations. It also promotes variety innovation through the efficient allocation of labor as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015214288
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The spirit of capitalism, innovation and long-run growth
Shi, Bowen; Wang, Gaowang; Zou, Heng-fu - 2019
We develop an endogenous growth model incorporating the spirit of capitalism and examine how it influences innovation and economic growth. In the benchmark homogeneous-ability model, we find that the spirit of capitalism increases both the capital accumulation rate by enhancing consumer patience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015214303
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Tracking the rise of robots: A survey of the IFR database and its applications
Klump, Rainer; Jurkat, Anne; Schneider, Florian - 2021
Robots are continuously transforming industrial production worldwide and thereby also inducing changes in a variety of production-related economic and social relations. While some observers call this transformation an unprecedented "revolution", others regard it as a common pattern of capitalist...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015258018