Those who can't sort, steal: caste, occupational mobility, and rent-seeking in rural India [0.03%]
不能分类的人会偷窃：印度农村的阶级、职业流动性和寻租行为
Nicholas Lawson,Dean Spears
Nicholas Lawson
Three important features of Indian labor markets enduringly coexist: rent-seeking, occupational immobility, and caste. These facts are puzzling, given theories that predict static, equilibrium social inequality without conflict. Our model e...
Water, Walls, and Bicycles: Wealth Index Composition Using Census Microdata [0.03%]
用水、墙壁和自行车来编制财富指数的普查微观数据成分
Rodrigo Lovaton Davila,Aine Seitz McCarthy,Dorothy Gondwe et al.
Rodrigo Lovaton Davila et al.
In this study, we produce a valid and consistent variable for socioeconomic status at the household level with census microdata from ten developing countries available from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series - International (IPUMS-I...
Johannes Norling
Johannes Norling
On average, childless women observed by the Panel Study of Income Dynamics report that they intend to have more children than they actual have. A collection of intentions that record only whether respondents intend to have another child can...
Jeremy Greenwood,Ananth Seshadri,Guillaume Vandenbroucke
Jeremy Greenwood
Bailey and Collins (2011) argue that Greenwood, Seshadri, and Vandenbroucke's (2005) hypothesis that the baby boom was partly due to a burst of productivity in the household sector is not supported by evidence. This conclusion is based on r...
Racial Differences in the Effect of Marriageable Males on Female Family Headship [0.03%]
男性可婚性对女性家庭户主地位影响的种族差异分析
Terry-Ann Craigie,Samuel L Myers Jr,William A Darity Jr
Terry-Ann Craigie
Female family headship has strong implications for endemic poverty in the United States. Consequently, it is imperative to explore the chief factors that contribute to this problem. Departing from prior literature that places significant we...
David N Weil
David N Weil
I examine recent changes in African mortality and discuss their potential economic and demographic effects. Growth in life expectancy sharply departed from its trend after 1990, and then experienced a sharp acceleration after 2005. This lat...
Ronald Lee
Ronald Lee
THE IPUMS COLLABORATION: INTEGRATING AND DISSEMINATING THE WORLD'S POPULATION MICRODATA [0.03%]
IPUMS协作项目：整合和发布世界人口微观数据
Steven Ruggles,Robert McCaa,Matthew Sobek et al.
Steven Ruggles et al.
The Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) International partnership is a project of the Minnesota Population Center and national statistical agencies, dedicated to collecting and distributing census data from around the world. IPUM...