3 papers
econ.TH2025
Fertility Choices with Career Risk
Ruiwu Liu
Couples decide whether to have children before knowing the persistent career loss generated by parenthood. After the loss is realized, household resources are renegotiated and indi…
econ.TH2025
Health Investment, Environment, and Population Dynamics
Ruiwu Liu
In this working paper, I developed a suite of macroeconomic models that shed light on the intricate relationship between economic development, health, and fertility. These innovati…
econ.GN2021
A Review of Disease and Development
Ruiwu Liu
Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) put forward the unprecedented view that health improvement has no significant effect on income growth. To arrive at this conclusion, they constructed pr…