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Autor:
Antonio Ciccone, Philipp Ager
Publikováno v:
Ager, P & Ciccone, A 2018, ' Agricultural risk and the spread of religious communities ', Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 1021-1068 . https://doi.org/10.1093/JEEA/JVX029
Building on the idea that members of religious communities insure each other against some idiosyncratic risks, we argue that religious communities should be more widespread where populations face greater common risk. Our theoretical argument builds o
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https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvx029
https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvx029
Autor:
Laura Salisbury
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Economic History. 77:1-38
Under the Civil War pension act of 1862, the widow of a Union Army soldier was entitled to a pension if her husband died as a direct result of his military service; however, she lost her right to the pension if she remarried. I analyze the effect thi
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https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050717000067
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050717000067
Autor:
Allison Shertzer
Publikováno v:
Journal of Public Economics. 139:1-12
Immigration to democratic nations generates new groups of potential voters. This paper investigates how the electorate share of immigrant groups influences their likelihood of becoming politically mobilized, focusing on the mechanism of coalition for
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2016.02.004
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2016.02.004
Autor:
Hoyt Bleakley, Joseph P. Ferrie
Publikováno v:
The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 131:1455-1495
Does the lack of wealth constrain parents’ investments in the human capital of their descendants? We conduct a nearly 50-year follow-up of an episode in which such constraints would have been plausibly relaxed by a random allocation of substantial
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https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjw014
https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjw014
Publikováno v:
The American economic review. 105(6)
We develop a theory of fertility, distinguishing its intensive margin from its extensive margin. The deep parameters are identified using facts from the 1990 US Census: (i) fertility of mothers decreases with education; (ii) childlessness exhibits a
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29543416
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29543416
Autor:
Dora L. Costa
Publikováno v:
Journal of Economic Literature. 53:503-570
I discuss the health transition in the United States, bringing new data to bear on health indicators and investigating the changing relationship between health, income, and the environment. I argue that scientific advances played an outsize role and
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https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.53.3.503
https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.53.3.503
Autor:
M. Daniele Paserman, Claudia Olivetti
Publikováno v:
American Economic Review. 105:2695-2724
This paper estimates historical intergenerational elasticities between fathers and children of both sexes in the United States using a novel empirical strategy. The key insight of our approach is that the information about socioeconomic status convey
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::9b11ac273f72de0e08971be95ce53de8
https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20130821
https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20130821
Autor:
Allison Shertzer, Adriana Lleras-Muney
Publikováno v:
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, vol 7, iss 3
Author(s): Lleras-Muney, Adriana; Shertzer, Allison | Abstract: We provide the first estimates of the effect of statutes requiring English as the language of instruction and compulsory schooling laws on the school enrollment, work, literacy, and Engl
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https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20120219
https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20120219
Autor:
Dora L. Costa, Matthew E. Kahn
Publikováno v:
American Economic Review. 105:564-569
In the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century, large cities had extremely high death rates from infectious disease. Within major cities such as New York City and Philadelphia, there was significant variation at any point in time in the
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https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.p20151070
https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.p20151070
Autor:
Dou-Yan Yang, Melvin Stephens
Publikováno v:
American Economic Review. 104(6):1777-92
Causal estimates of the benefits of increased schooling using US state schooling laws as instruments typically rely on specifications which assume common trends across states in the factors affecting different birth cohorts. Differential changes acro
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http://www.aeaweb.org/aer/ds/10406/20121082_ds.zip
http://www.aeaweb.org/aer/ds/10406/20121082_ds.zip