{"title":"Behind the child penalty: understanding what contributes to the labour market costs of motherhood","authors":"Alessandra Casarico, Salvatore Lattanzio","doi":"10.1007/s00148-023-00937-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00937-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Population Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49636071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Delay in childbearing and the evolution of fertility rates","authors":"E. Dioikitopoulos, D. Varvarigos","doi":"10.1007/s00148-022-00931-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-022-00931-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Population Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-27"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42101486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Natural selection and Neanderthal extinction in a Malthusian economy","authors":"A. Chu","doi":"10.1007/s00148-023-00939-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00939-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Population Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47585021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantity-quality trade-off in Northeast China during the Qing dynasty","authors":"Yu Bai, Yanjun Li, Pak Hung Lam","doi":"10.1007/s00148-022-00933-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-022-00933-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Population Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-38"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47706553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social security, economic growth, and social welfare in an overlapping generation model with idiosyncratic TFP shock and heterogeneous workers","authors":"Toshiki Tamai","doi":"10.1007/s00148-022-00934-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-022-00934-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Population Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-34"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47422346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vladimir Otrachshenko, Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova
{"title":"Double-edged sword: persistent effects of Communist regime affiliations on well-being and preferences","authors":"Vladimir Otrachshenko, Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova","doi":"10.1007/s00148-022-00930-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-022-00930-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Population Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-47"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49575613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimal interventions in networks during a pandemic.","authors":"Roland Pongou, Guy Tchuente, Jean-Baptiste Tondji","doi":"10.1007/s00148-022-00916-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00148-022-00916-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We develop a model of optimal lockdown policy for a social planner who balances population health with short-term wealth accumulation. The unique solution depends on tolerable infection incidence and social network structure. We then use unique data on nursing home networks in the US to calibrate the model and quantify state-level preference for prioritizing health over wealth. We also empirically validate simulation results derived from comparative statics analyses. Our findings suggest that policies that tolerate more virus spread (laissez-faire) increase state GDP growth and COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes. The detrimental effects of laissez-faire policies are more potent for nursing homes that are more peripheral in networks, nursing homes in poorer counties, and nursing homes that operate on a for-profit basis. We also find that US states with Republican governors have a higher tolerable incidence level, but these policies tend to converge with a high death count.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00148-022-00916-y.</p>","PeriodicalId":48013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Population Economics","volume":"36 2","pages":"847-883"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9375093/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9308332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eastward enlargements of the European Union, transitional arrangements and self-employment.","authors":"Magdalena Ulceluse, Martin Kahanec","doi":"10.1007/s00148-022-00904-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-022-00904-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When the European Union expanded eastward in 2004 and 2007 to accession the so-called EU8 and EU2 countries, respectively, the incumbent member states imposed temporary restrictions on the employment of EU8 and EU2 nationals. Self-employed individuals were exempted from these transitional arrangements, prompting concerns that self-employment could be used as a means to evade the restrictions on labour market access. If the transitional arrangements led to an increase in EU8 and EU2 nationals' self-employment rates, as previous research suggests, then their removal should have led to a corresponding decrease. This article analyses whether the latter has indeed been the case. Using pooled cross section data from the EU Labour Force Survey, over the period 2004-2019, we show that removing the transitional arrangements has had a negative effect on the self-employment rates of EU2 nationals, but seemingly no effect on the self-employment rates of EU8 nationals. Distinguishing between types of capitalist regimes, however, reveals a much more nuanced picture, with significant variation in terms of the magnitude and significance of the effect across groups of countries.</p>","PeriodicalId":48013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Population Economics","volume":"36 2","pages":"719-742"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9077354/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10765112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health shocks and spousal labor supply: an international perspective.","authors":"Nicholas A Jolly, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos","doi":"10.1007/s00148-022-00929-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00148-022-00929-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper uses data from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe to analyze the effect of spousal health shocks on own labor supply decisions. The results suggest minimal changes to the probability of work and the intensity of work for both husbands and wives of disabled spouses. Wives do, however, experience an increase in the probability of retirement after their husbands experience a work-limiting health shock. The results suggest that this increased probability is due to the desire to consume joint leisure. Finally, the analysis finds substantial cross-regional heterogeneity in the effects that spousal health shocks have on the various labor market outcomes examined here, which suggests an important role for country-specific factors in the estimates provided in the earlier literature.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00148-022-00929-7.</p>","PeriodicalId":48013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Population Economics","volume":"36 2","pages":"973-1004"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9763794/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10750971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do high aspirations lead to better outcomes? Evidence from a longitudinal survey of adolescents in Peru.","authors":"Carol Graham, Julia R Pozuelo","doi":"10.1007/s00148-021-00881-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00148-021-00881-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using a novel panel survey of relatively poor urban Peruvian adolescents, we explore the link between educational aspirations and propensity to invest in the future. Aspirations comprise hope and agency. We find remarkably high educational aspirations, even among relatively poor individuals and adolescents who were exposed to negative shocks, suggesting high levels of resilience. We also find high occupational aspirations and aspirations to migrate. High-aspiration respondents were also more likely to invest in their education and avoid risky behaviors. These are associations as we do not have enough data to establish causality, although we were able to control for within-person traits. Aspirations are stable over time and positively associated with personality traits such as self-efficacy and life satisfaction, which help explain their persistence over time. Our findings complement those of other recent studies that highlight the role of personality traits in addition to cognitive skills in long-term educational, health, and socioeconomic outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":48013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Population Economics","volume":"36 3","pages":"1099-1137"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8798310/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9512048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}