J Greenwood, A Seshadri… - The American …, 2005 - ingentaconnect.com
What caused the baby boom? And can it be explained within the context of the secular decline
in fertility that has occurred over the last 200 years? The hypothesis is that: (a) The secular decline
in fertility is due to the relentless rise in real wages that increased the opportunity cost of ...
J Greenwood… - 2005 - nber.org
ABSTRACT For 200 years the average number of hours worked per worker declined, both in
the market place and at home. Technological progress is the engine of such transformation.
Three mechanisms are stressed:(i) The rise in real wages and its corresponding wealth ...
R Dekle… - … of Economic Policy Research Working Paper, 2006 - frbsf.org
Abstract Between 1978 and 2003 the Chinese economy experienced a remarkable 5.7
percent annual growth of GDP per labor. At the same time, there has been a noticeable
transformation of the economy: the share of workers in agriculture decreased from over 70 ...
J Greenwood, A Seshadri… - 2002 - papers.ssrn.com
Contact information: Jeremy Greenwood Department of Economics Harkness Hall University
of Rochester PO Box 270156 Rochester, New York 14627-0156, USA. (585) 275-5252, Fax:
(585) 256-2309 E-mail: gree@troi.cc.rochester.edu ... By Jeremy Greenwood, Ananth ...
G Vandenbroucke - International Economic Review, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The US economic development in the 19th century was characterized by the westward
movement of population and the accumulation of productive land in the West. This article
presents a model of migration and land improvement to identify the quantitatively ...
D Restuccia… - 2008 - nber.org
Abstract Between 1940 and 2000 there has been a substantial increase of educational
attainment in the United States. What caused this trend? We develop a model of schooling
decisions in order to assess the quantitative contribution of technological progress in ...
G Vandenbroucke - Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2009 - Elsevier
During the first half of the 20th century the length of the workweek in the US declined, and its
distribution across wage deciles narrowed. The hypothesis is twofold. First, technological
progress, through the rise in wages and the decreasing cost of recreation, made it ...
R Dekle… - Review of Development …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We perform a growth-accounting exercise for Chinese economic growth from 1978 to 2003,
by decomposing Chinese growth in GDP per labor into the contributions arising from the
agricultural, public, and private sectors; and the contribution arising from the reallocations ...
G Vandenbroucke - 2004 Meeting Papers, 2004 - ideas.repec.org
What drove western population growth in the US during the 19th century? The facts are:(i)
The birth ratio was higher in the West than in the East. Both exhibited a secular decline.(ii)
Between 1800 and 1810 net migration accounted for 88% of the rate of population growth ...
G Vandenbroucke - IEPR Working Papers, 2005 - ideas.repec.org
During the first half of the 20th century the workweek in the United States declined, and the
distribution of hours across wage deciles narrowed. At the same time, the distribution of
wages narrowed too. The hypothesis proposed is (i) Households have access to an ...
R Dekle… - Woking paper, 2006 - karyiuwong.com
How long can Chinese rapid economic growth continue? This is a central—if not the most
central—question in China, Asia, and in the world economy. China has been growing
consistently at 8 to 10 percent of GDP per year over the last decades. Straight ...
R Dekle… - Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2011 - Elsevier
The structural transformation of China–or the reallocation of resources from the agricultural
sector to the nonagricultural sector–between 1978 and 2003 was truly remarkable. We
develop a two-sector neoclassical growth model to quantitatively assess the driving forces ...
D Restuccia… - University of Iowa …, 2010 - economics.utoronto.ca
Abstract Consider the following facts. In 1950 the richest ten-percent of countries attained an
average of 8.1 years of schooling whereas the poorest ten-percent of countries attained 1.3
years, a 6-fold difference. By 2005, the difference in schooling declined to 2-fold. The fact ...
D Restuccia… - manuscript, …, 2010 - guillaume-vandenbroucke.net
Abstract A person in the United States born in the second half of the nineteenth century
completed about 7 years of schooling and spent an average of 58 hours a week working in
the market. By contrast, at the end of the twentieth century, people completed close to 14 ...
[CITATION] June 2005.“Long-Run Trends in Hours: A Model.”
G Vandenbroucke - Economie D'avant Garde
G Vandenbroucke - Review of Economic Dynamics, 2008 - Elsevier
How important was international immigration for the US and its demography during the
nineteenth century? This paper investigates, quantitatively, its effect on the westward
movement of population and the regional and secular changes in fertility. Beside ...
J Greenwood… - 2004 - econ.ucsb.edu
• Mitchell, Brian R. International Historical Statistics: The Americas , 1750-1993. New York,
NY: Stockton Press, 1998. ... • Mitchell, Brian R. International Historical Statistics: Europe,
1750-1993. New York, NY: Stockton Press, 1998. ... • Mitchell, Brian R. International ...
[CITATION] Long% Run Trends in Hours: A Model
G Vandenbroucke - Research Re% port, 2005
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J Greenwood, A Seshadri… - 2002 - nber.org
Abstract The welfare gain to consumers from the introduction of personal computers is
estimated here. A simple model of consumer demand is formulated that uses a slightly
modified version of standard preferences. The modification permits marginal utility, and ...
[CITATION] The Welfare Cost of Fluctuations: How Far should we go?
G Vandenbroucke - 1998
G Vandenbroucke - 2012 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: During World War I (1914-1918) the birth rates of countries such as France,
Germany, the UK, Belgium and Italy declined by almost 50 percent. In France, where the
population was 40 millions in 1914, the deficit of births is estimated to 1.36 millions over 4 ...
G Vandenbroucke - 2005 - Citeseer
Abstract Some facts characterizing the US economic development in the 19th century are:(i)
the westward movement of population,(ii) the improvement of land by western settlers and
(iii) the real wage gap in favor of the newly settled regions. Can a general equilibrium ...
G Vandenbroucke - Economie d'Avant Garde Dissertations, 2004 - ideas.repec.org
General equilibrium models are used to explore the interactions between macroeconomics
and the two components of population growth: natural increase and net-migration. The first
questions at hand are: What caused the baby boom? Can it be explained within the ...
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