FROM EMPTY PEWS TO EMPTY CRADLES: FERTILITY DECLINE AMONG EUROPEAN CATHOLICS

FROM EMPTY PEWS TO EMPTY CRADLES: Fertility Decline Among European Catholics

Population Studies at Michigan, the Harris School and an ASSA session where Evelyn Lehrer provided a very useful discussion. We acknowledge the support of NSF grant 0520188 through the NBER. Abstract The Catholic countries of Europe pose a puzzle for economic demography – their fertility is the lowest in history despite low female labor force participation rates. Total fertility rates now avera...

From Almost Empty to Half Full? A Response to Recent Commentaries

Empty chateaux

When I woke up on the morning of Tuesday 27th June 2000, I noticed no change at all. I telephoned a few friends and they confirmed that their lives were not much different that morning. One said he had a slight hangover but he could account for this minor deviation. For years we had been told that once we had the sequence of the human genome, everything would change. So how come after the rough...

Empty Alternation

We introduce the notion of empty alternation by investigating alternating automata which are restricted to empty their storage except for a logarithmically space-bounded tape before making an alternating transition. In particular, we consider the cases when the depth of alternation is bounded by a constant or a polylogarithmic function. In this way we get new characterizations of the classes AC...

Empty Voting

Recent work (Hu and Black (2005, 2007, 2008); Dekel and Wolinsky (2012)) has detailed the twin issues of empty voting and hidden/morphable ownership. The former arises when an actor has control rights over a corporation but no economic interest in that corporation, such as when an investor borrows shares. The latter arises when a shareholder has an economic or voting interest in a corporation b...