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Title: Measuring the Impact of Technological Progress on the Household

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2007

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Abstract: In each of the following chapters, macro models are developed to explore the impact of technological progress on the household. Chapter 1 focuses on the impact of technological progress in transportation on suburbanization. In this chapter, a model of a city is developed in which agents choose both whether or not to own a car, and where to live. Focusing on the period 1910 to 1970, the model is calibrated to match the fall in automobile prices, the rise in real incomes, and the rise in the cost of commuting by public transportation relative to commuting by car. Under the baseline calibration the model predicts both a rise in car-ownership and decentralization. In Chapter 2, a model with leisure production and endogenous retirement is used to explain the declining labor-force participation rates of elderly males. Using the Health and Retirement Study, the model is calibrated to cross-sectional data on the labor-force participation rates of elderly US males by age and their average drop . . .

Url: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.363.1050&rep=rep1&type=pdf

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Authors: Kopecky , Karen, A

Institution: University of Rochester

Department: Economics

Advisor: Jeremy Greenwood

Degree: PhD

Publisher Location: Rochester, NY

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Aging and Retirement, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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