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The Impact of Covid-19 on Gender Equality

The economic downturn caused by the current COVID-19 outbreak has substantial implications for gender equality, both during the downturn and the subsequent recovery. Compared to “regular” recessions,…
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Consumer Bankruptcy: A Fresh Start

Consumer bankruptcy provides partial insurance against bad luck, but, by driving up interest rates, makes life-cycle smoothing more difficult. We argue that to assess this trade-off one needs a…
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2007 world population data sheet.

Much press has been given to the increase in immigration in the industrialized world-most of which has come from developing countries. The United States and Canada for example both have long…
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Polygyny, Fertility, and Savings

  • M. Tertilt
  • Economics, Sociology
    Journal of Political Economy
  • 1 December 2005
Sub‐Saharan Africa has a high incidence of polygyny. It is also the poorest region of the world. In this paper I ask whether banning polygyny could play any role for development. Using a quantitative…
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Women's Liberation: What's in it for Men?

The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a…
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This Time it's Different: The Role of Women's Employment in a Pandemic Recession

In recent US recessions, employment losses have been much larger for men than for women. Yet, in the current recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the opposite is true: unemployment is higher…
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An Economic History of Fertility in the U.S.: 1826-1960

Aqueous structured surfactants, e.g., lamellar, or preferably spherulitic systems optionally containing suspended solids are used as functional fluids, such as drilling fluids, cutting fluids,…
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Fertility Theories: Can They Explain the Negative Fertility-Income Relationship?

In this chapter we revisit the relationship between income and fertility. There is overwhelming empirical evidence that fertility is negatively related to income in most countries at most times.…
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Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution †

Research increasingly stresses the role of human capital in modern economic development. Existing historical evidence—mostly from British textile industries—however, rejects that formal education was…

Accounting for the Rise in Consumer Bankruptcies

Personal bankruptcies in the United States have increased dramatically, rising from 1.4 per thousand working age population in 1970 to 8.5 in 2002. We use a heterogeneous agent life-cycle model with…
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