Agriculture to industry: The end of intergenerational coresidence

Pensieroso, Luca; Sommacal, Alessandro

doi:10.1016/j.red.2019.03.007

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“…Bethencourt and Rios-Rull (2009) present a similar story for elderly widows. Pensieroso and Sommacal (2019) argue that the shift from agriculture to industry is an important factor for explaining the drop in intergenerational coresidence.…”

Section: Household Sizementioning

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The great transition: Kuznets facts for family-economists

Greenwood,

Guner,

Marto

2023

Handbook of the Economics of the Family, Volume 1

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Section: Household Sizementioning

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The great transition: Kuznets facts for family-economists

Greenwood,

Guner,

Marto

2023

Handbook of the Economics of the Family, Volume 1

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“…We deduce the value of χ from Pensieroso and Sommacal (2019), who calibrate the growth rate of sectoral productivity to match economic growth in the U.S. and in a sample of West-European countries. This gives χ = 0.443.…”

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Left-Handedness and Economic Development

Mariani

Mercier

Pensieroso³

2021

SSRN Journal

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This paper studies the interplay between left-handedness and economic development.To explain the decline and subsequent recovery of left-handedness observed over the last few centuries in the Western world, we propose a theory in which economic development influences the prevalence of left-handedness through structural change and a genetic mechanism driven by differential fertility. We further explore the possibility that the prevalence of left-handedness influences growth, finding that the link between handedness and economic performance varies across stages of development. Consistent with the implications of our model, the analysis of US data suggests that left-handedness can positively contribute to growth, once the economy has reached a sufficiently high level of human capital. Our research provides an example of how economic development can shape evolutionary forces, thus improving our understanding of the growth-diversity link.

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“…By doing so, we disregard potentially important phenomena like savings or intergenerational co-residence. On this latter point, see the recent contribution ofPensieroso and Sommacal (2017).20 We discuss this assumption and the related critics ofClark et al (2012) in Appendix A.5.…”

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The rural exodus and the rise of Europe

Baudin

Stelter

2022

J Econ Growth

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To assess the importance of the rural exodus in fostering the transition from stagnation to growth, we propose a unified model of growth and internal migrations. Using an original set of Swedish data, we identify the deep parameters of our model. We show that internal migration conditions had to be favorable enough to authorize an exodus out of the countryside in order to fuel the industrial development of cities and the demographic transition of the country. We then compare the respective contribution of shocks on internal migration costs, infant mortality and inequalities in agricultural productivity to the economic take-off and the demographic transition that occurred in Sweden. Negative shocks on labor mobility generate larger delays in the take-off to growth compared to mortality shocks equivalent to the Black Death. Deepening inequalities of productivity in the agricultural sector, like it has been done by enclosure movements, contributes to accelerate urbanization at the cost of depressed economic growth.

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Agriculture to industry: The end of intergenerational coresidence

Cited by 8 publications

References 28 publications

The great transition: Kuznets facts for family-economists

The great transition: Kuznets facts for family-economists

Left-Handedness and Economic Development

The rural exodus and the rise of Europe

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