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China and the United States: Different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility

van der Weide, Roy; Narayan, Ambar - 2019

The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...

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Late, But Not Too Late? Postponement of First Birth Among Highly Educated US Women

Nitsche, Natalie; Brückner, Hannah - In: European Journal of Population 37 (2020) 2, pp. 371-403

nexus noted in demographic and biomedical research is especially relevant for women who pursue postgraduate education … because of the potential overlap of education completion, early career stages, and family formation. The results show that … women with postgraduate education differ from women with college education in terms of the timing of the first birth …

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The Gap between Lifetime Fertility Intentions and Completed Fertility in Europe and the United States: A Cohort Approach

Beaujouan, Éva; Berghammer, Caroline - 2017

We study the aggregate gap between intended and actual fertility in 20 countries in Europe and the United States, adopting a cohort approach that differs from the period approach widely used in prior research. We compare the mean intended number of children and percentage intending to be...

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The Failure of Northern Rock: A multi-dimensional Case Study

Congdon, Tim; Goodhart, Charles A.E.; Eisenbeis, Robert A. - 2009

In August 2007 the United Kingdom experienced its first bank run in over 140 years. Although Northern Rock was not a particularly large bank (it was at the time ranked 7th in terms of assets) it was nevertheless a significant retail bank and a substantial mortgage lender. In fact, ten years...

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Stocking Up on Wealth . . . Concentration

Fix, Blair - In: Real-World Economics Review (2024) 107, pp. 40-56

It turns out that like the rest of us, billionaires experience wealth inequality. (Individuals who top the Forbes billionaire list are far richer than those at the bottom of the list.) Interestingly, this billionaire wealth concentration fluctuates over time … in tight correlation with the...

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Three futures for postcrisis banking in the Americas: The financial trilemma and the Wall Street complex

Dymski, Gary A. - 2010

This would seem an opportune moment to reshape banking systems in the Americas. But any effort to rethink and improve banking must acknowledge three major barriers. The first is a crisis of vision: there has been too little consideration of what kind of banking system would work best for...

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