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Engines of liberation

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J Greenwood, A Seshadri… - Review of Economic …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Electricity was born at the dawn of the last century. Households were inundated with a flood
of new consumer durables. What was the impact of this consumer durable goods revolution?
It is argued here that the consumer goods revolution was conducive to liberating women ...
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Are americans saving" optimally" for retirement?

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JK Scholz, A Seshadri… - 2004 - nber.org
This paper examines the degree to which Americans are saving optimally for retirement. Our
standard for assessing optimality comes from a life-cycle model that incorporates uncertain
lifetimes, uninsurable earnings and medical expenses, progressive taxation, government ...
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[PDF] Human capital and the wealth of nations

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R Manuelli… - 2005 - nber.org
Abstract No question has perhaps attracted as much attention in the economics literature as
“Why are some countries richer than others?” In this paper, we revisit the development
problem. Contrary to recent work, we find that only relatively small (of at most 27%) ...
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The baby boom and baby bust

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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 ...
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The US demographic transition

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J Greenwood… - The American economic review, 2002 - JSTOR
Picture the United States in 1800. The vast majority (94 percent) of the populace lived in
rural areas. The average white woman gave birth to seven children. Now, move forward to
1940. Only 43 percent of the population lived in rural areas, and the average white woman ...
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Efficient investment in children

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SR Aiyagari, J Greenwood… - Journal of Economic Theory, 2002 - Elsevier
Many would say that children are society's most precious resource. So, how should we
invest in them? To gain insight into this question, a dynamic general equilibrium model is
developed where children differ by ability. Parents invest time and money in their offspring ...
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Technological progress and economic transformation

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J Greenwood… - Handbook of Economic Growth, 2005 - Elsevier
Imagine living as a typical American child in the nineteenth century. You have six brothers
and/or sisters. You live in a house, outside of an urban area, with no running water, no central
heating, and no electricity. Your father labors 70 hours a week in the agricultural ...
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Children and household wealth

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J Scholz… - 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper examines the effects of children on consumption and wealth. To anchor
intuition, we develop implications using a simple permanent income model with no
uncertainty and complete markets. But this framework does not come close to matching ...
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Explaining International Fertility Differences

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RE Manuelli… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2009 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract Why do fertility rates vary so much across countries? Why are European fertility
rates so much lower than American fertility rates? To answer these questions we extend the
Barro—Becker framework to incorporate the decision to accumulate human capital (which ...
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Is assortative matching efficient?

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SN Durlauf, A Seshadri - Economic Theory, 2003 - Springer
Summary. This paper develops some general conditions under which complementarities
between individual agents imply that assortative matching is efficient. Our analysis has four
main findings. First, when agents are organized into equal-sized groups, just as in Becker ...
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A new test of borrowing constraints for education

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M Brown, JK Scholz… - 2009 - nber.org
We discuss a simple model of intergenerational transfers with one-sided altruism: parents
care about their child but the child does not reciprocate. Parents and children make
investments in the child's education, investments for other purposes, and parents can ...
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Are All Americans Saving'Optimally'for Retirement?

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J Scholz… - 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Many people fear that Americans are preparing poorly for retirement. But
developing rigorous evidence on this issue is difficult. In this paper we briefly discuss
evidence on the adequacy of retirement wealth accumulation. We conclude that existing ...
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Equity and efficiency effects of redistributive policies

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A Seshadri, K Yuki - Journal of Monetary Economics, 2004 - Elsevier
How do various forms of redistribution affect the distributions of earnings and consumption
and their intergenerational mobility? Do redistributive policies enhance efficiency by
mitigating market imperfections? Or do they create a trade-off between equity and ...
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[CITATION] Tied Transfers

M Brown, M Mazzocco, JK Scholz… - Department of Economics University …, 2006
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The Baby Boom and Baby Bust

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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 ...
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Technological Progress and Economic Transformation

J Greenwood… - Economie d'Avant Garde Research …, 2002 - ideas.repec.org
Growth theory goes a long way toward explaining phenomena in labor economics linked
with US economic development. Some examples are:(a) the secular decline in fertility
between 1800 and 1980,(b) the decline in agricultural employment and the rise in skill ...
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[CITATION] Human capital and the wealth of nations

A Seshadri… - 2005 Meeting Papers, 2005 - ideas.repec.org
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[PDF] The Assets and Liabilities Held by Low-Income Families

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JK Scholz… - Access, Assets, and Poverty …, 2007 - nationalpovertycenter.net
* We thank Michael Barr and Becky Blank for their guidance, Ben Cowan for outstanding
assistance, and Karen Pence for her insights on the SCF. We also thank Arthur Kennickell
and his colleagues at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve for their ...
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[PDF] Neoclassical Miracles

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R Manuelli, A Seshadri - manuscript, University of Wisconsin, 2009 - ssc.wisc.edu
• In this case the solution is such that:—n (a)= 1, for a≤ 6+ s (t).[s (t) is schooling chosen by
generation t]—h (s+ 6) and s increase with the real wage.—h (s+ 6) and s decrease with the
real interest rate.• Fertility and interest rates r= ρ+ ˆα0+(1− α1) η. where η= f/B is the ...
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What Replacement Rates Should Households Use?

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J Scholz… - 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Common financial planning advice calls for households to ensure that retirement
income exceeds 70 percent of average pre-retirement income. We use an augmented life-
cycle model of household behavior to examine optimal replacement rates for a ...
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[PDF] Health and Wealth in a Life Cycle Model

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JK Scholz… - Unpublished mimeo, 2010 - nber.org
Abstract This paper presents a preliminary model of health investments over the life cycle.
Health affects both longevity and provides flow utility. We analyze the interplay between
consumption choices and investments in health by solving each household's dynamic ...
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[CITATION] The Contribution of Human Capital to Development

R Manuelli… - University of Wisconsin, working paper, 2004
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Lifetime Labor Supply and Human Capital Investment

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RE Manuelli, A Seshadri… - Working Paper Series, 2012 - research.stlouisfed.org
We develop a model of retirement and human capital investment to study the effects of tax
and retirement policies. Workers choose the supply of raw labor (career length) and also the
human capital embodied in their labor. Our model explains a significant fraction of the US- ...
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[CITATION] Are Americans Saving ''Optimally

JK Scholz, A Seshadri… - for Retirement, 2004
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[CITATION] qHuman Capital and the Wealth of Nations, rmimeo

R Manuelli… - 2005
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[CITATION] Forthcoming.“Are Americans Saving Optimally for Retirement?”

JK Scholz, A Seshadri… - Journal of Political Economy
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[CITATION] Guillaume Vandenbroucke. March 2005.“The Baby Boom and Baby Bust: Some Macroeconomics for Population Economics.”

J Greenwood… - American Economic Review
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[CITATION] «Human Capital and the Wealth of Nations», 2005

R Manuelli… - University of Wisconsin-Madison
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[PDF] East Asia vs. Latin America: TFP and Human Capital Policies

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R Manuelli… - Unpublished Manuscript, 2007 - mfi.uchicago.edu
In any empirical analysis of cross country economic performance it is easy to find a few
episodes of fast growth, as well as many instances of economic stagnation. A major
challenge for economic theory is to identify what are the driving forces behind the ...
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[PDF] A New Test of Educational Borrowing Constraints

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M Brown, JK Scholz… - 2007 - economics.uchicago.edu
Abstract Models of educational investment and borrowing typically treat the family as a
unitary decisionmaker. Doing so potentially conceals the nature of educational borrowing
constraints, since adults with college-age children are likely at a life-cycle stage where ...
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[PDF] Specialization in education

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A Seshadri - 2000 - ssc.wisc.edu
Abstract Private markets promote greater diversity in educational opportunities. Emphasis is
placed on the central role that teachers play in producing human capital. Students have
different needs and teachers vary in characteristics. An assignment process is developed ...
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The US demographic transition

J Greenwood… - Working Paper, 2001 - ideas.repec.org
Between 1800 and 1940, the United States went through a dramatic demographic transition.
In 1800, the average woman had seven children, and 94 percent of the population lived in
rural areas. By 1940, the average woman birthed just two kids, and only 43 percent of the ...
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The Influence of Public Policy on Health, Wealth and Mortality

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JK Scholz… - 2011 - 141.213.232.243
In this project we extend an augmented lifecycle model, incorporating a Grossman-style
model of health capital, to enhance understanding of factors influencing consumption,
wealth and health. We develop three primary results when using the model to explore the ...
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[CITATION] Are Americans Saving “Optimally” for Retirement? Are Americans Saving “Optimally” for Retirement?(pp. 607-643) Contains supplements

JK Scholz, A Seshadri, S Khitatrakun… - Journal of Political …, 2006 - JSTOR
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[PDF] Nature and Nurture in the Transmission of Economic Status

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SY Lee, A Seshadri - 2011 - lee.vwl.uni-mannheim.de
Abstract The intergenerational elasticity of lifetime earnings is above 0.4 in the United
States. Some of this is due to nature-the intergenerational correlation of something innate
such as ability, and some of this may be attributed to nurture, the fact that better parents ...
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[PDF] East Asia vs. Latin America: TFP and Human Capital Policies (Very Preliminary and Incomplete-Please do not quote)

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RE Manuelli… - 2007 - Citeseer
In any empirical analysis of cross country economic performance it is easy to find a few
episodes of fast growth, as well as many instances of economic stagnation. A major
challenge for economic theory is to identify what are the driving forces behind the ...
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[PDF] Lifetime Labor Supply and Human Capital Accumulation

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RE Manuelli, A Seshadri… - 2010 - economics.stanford.edu
Abstract We develop a model to study how two policies, retirement benefits and taxes, affect
output per worker. We calibrate the model and find that, for the US, extending the normal
retirement age as well as reasonable demographich changes would have an impact on ...
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[PDF] Economie d'avant garde

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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 ...
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[PDF] Efficient Investment In Children by S. Rao Aiyagari, Jeremy Greenwood

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In the US economy a male in the top 5th percentile earns about 8.6 times the labor income of
one in the bottom 5th. The correlation between a father's and a son's earnings is high, too,
somewhere between 0.40 and 0.65. Many take this as prima facie evidence that markets ...
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[PDF] Are All Americans Saving 'Optimally'for Retirement?

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WG Gale, JK Scholz… - 2009 - ssc.wisc.edu
______________ The research reported herein was pursuant to a grant from the US Social
Security Administration (SSA) funded as part of the Retirement Research Consortium (RRC).
The findings and conclusions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not ...
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[PDF] Neoclassical Miracles?(Preliminary and Incomplete-Please do not quote)

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RE Manuelli… - 2007 - clevelandfed.org
Abstract We study the dynamic behavior of a neoclassical growth model with finite lifetimes
and imperfect altruism in which individuals can accumulate both physical and human
capital. We use the model to make a first pass at the question of what factors can account ...
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