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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8730 John V. Winters
The Production and Stock of College Graduates for U.S. States
The stock of human capital in an area is important for regional economic growth and development. However, highly educated workers are often quite mobile and there is a concern that public investments ...
(revised version published as 'Do higher college graduation rates increase local education levels?' in: Papers in Regional Science, 2018, 97 (3), 617 - 638)
I25, J24, R23
8729 Dmytro Hryshko
Chinhui Juhn
Kristin McCue
Trends in Earnings Inequality and Earnings Instability among U.S. Couples: How Important Is Assortative Matching?
We examine changes in inequality and instability of the combined earnings of married couples over the 1980-2009 period using two U.S. panel data sets: Social Security earnings data matched to Survey ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 48, 168-182)
J1, J2, J3
8728 Shoshana Grossbard
Sex Ratios, Polygyny, and the Value of Women in Marriage: A Beckerian Approach
A central component of his theory of marriage Becker's Demand and Supply (D&S) models of marriage are also among the most unique models he pioneered. Here I provide an overview of Becker's analysis ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, 81(1), 13-25)
J12, J16
8727 Andriana Bellou
Emanuela Cardia
Baby-Boom, Baby-Bust and the Great Depression
The baby-boom and subsequent baby-bust have shaped much of the history of the second half of the 20th century; yet it is still largely unclear what caused them. This paper presents a new unified ...
(See IZA DP 18120 for an updated version of this paper.)
J11, J12, J13, J21, J24, J26, J31
8726 Matthias Doepke
Fabian Kindermann
Intrahousehold Decision Making and Fertility
The economic theory of fertility choice builds predominantly on the unitary model of the household, in which there is a single household utility function and potential intra-household disagreement is ...
(published in: M. Cervellati, U. Sunde (eds.), Demographic Change and Long-Run Development, MIT Press, 2017, )
D13, J12, J13
8725 Astrid Kunze
Amalia Miller
Women Helping Women? Evidence from Private Sector Data on Workplace Hierarchies
This paper studies gender spillovers in career advancement using 11 years of employer-employee matched data on the population of white-collar workers at over 4,000 private-sector establishments in ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99 (5), 769-775, 2017)
J6, J7, M5
8724 Alex Bryson
Andrew E. Clark
Richard B. Freeman
Colin P. Green
Share Capitalism and Worker Wellbeing
We show that worker wellbeing is not only related to the amount of compensation workers receive but also how they receive it. While previous theoretical and empirical work has often been pre-occupied ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 151-158)
J28, J33, J54, J63, J81, M52
8723 Irene Mosca
Alan Barrett
The Impact of Voluntary and Involuntary Retirement on Mental Health: Evidence from Older Irish Adults
The few studies that have attempted to identify the causal effects of retirement on mental health and well-being have provided conflicting evidence. Hence, whether retirement affects mental health ...
(published in: Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 2016, 19, 33-44)
J26, J14
8722 Carol Lee Graham
Milena Nikolova
Bentham or Aristotle in the Development Process? An Empirical Investigation of Capabilities and Subjective Well-being
Life evaluations and emotional states are distinct subjective well-being (SWB) components. We explore the relationship between opportunities and SWB dimensions, distinguishing between actual ...
(published in: World Development, 2015, 68, 163 - 179)
I31, I39
8721 John T. Giles
Elan Satriawan
Protecting Child Nutritional Status in the Aftermath of a Financial Crisis: Evidence from Indonesia
In response to concerns over the vulnerability of the young in the wake of Indonesia's 1997-1998 economic crises, the Government of Indonesia implemented a supplementary feeding program to support ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 114, 97 -106)
I12, I18, O15, O20, O22
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