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Simulating Targeted Policies with Macro Impacts: Poverty Alleviation Policies in Madagascar.

Cogneau, Denis; Robilliard, Anne-Sophie - Université Paris-Dauphine - 2008

Nous présentons le cadre d’un modèle de simulation macro-micro pour l’étude de l’impact des politiques économiques sur la distribution du revenu et la pauvreté monétaire à Madagascar. Les options et les choix de modélisation sont discutés pour le module micro-économique et pour...

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Many Types of Human Capital and Many Roles in U.S. Growth: Evidence from County-Level Educational Attainment Data

Young, Andrew; Levy, Daniel; Higgins, Matthew - EconWPA - 2004

We utilize county-level data to explore the roles of different types of human capital accumulation in U.S. growth determination. The data includes over 3,000 cross-sectional observations and 39 demographic control variables. The large number of observations provides enough degrees of freedom to...

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Intelligence, Human Capital, and Economic Growth: A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach

Jones, Garett; Schneider, W. Joel - EconWPA - 2005

Human capital plays an important role in the theory of economic growth, but it has been difficult to measure this abstract concept. We survey the psychological literature on cross-cultural IQ tests, and conclude that modern intelligence tests are well-suited for measuring an important form of a...

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Responses of Private and Public Schools to Voucher Funding:The Czech and Hungarian Experience

Filer, Randall K.; Münich, Daniel - EconWPA - 2001

A state monopoly in schooling followed the collapse of communism in Central Europe. The centrally planned system was abandoned. Systems comparable with educational voucher scheme, also known as school choice system, were introduced in the Czech Republic and Hungary in the early 1990s. The newly...

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Capital Humano y Crecimiento Económico en México (1970-2000). Human Capital and Economic Growth in Mexico.

Bautista, Alejandro Diaz; Dominguez, Mauro Diaz - EconWPA - 2004

En los últimos años, se han realizado diversos estudios a nivel mundial utilizando el modelo de crecimiento y convergencia económica, a través de países y de regiones. Para el caso de México, hasta la segunda mitad de los noventas comienza el análisis empírico de la convergencia...

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IQ in the Ramsey Model: A Naive Calibration

Jones, Garett - EconWPA - 2005

I show that in a conventional Ramsey model, between one-fourth and one- half of income differences across countries can be explained by a single factor: The steady-state effect of large, persistent differences in national average IQ on worker productivity. These differences in cognitive...

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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework

Douhan, Robin; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...

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Knowledge Codification and Endogenous Growth

Schneider, Maik T. - CER-ETH Center of Economic Research, Department of … - 2007

The usual models of endogenous growth treat knowledge codification as a byproduct of R&D and as costless. In contrast … to this, one can observe great efforts of private firms for the purposeful codification of knowledge. We incorporate … costly knowledge codification in an overlapping generations framework of endogenous growth and show that the steady …

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The Iberian Tigers versus The Celtic Tiger: Economic Growth Paths in an Economic History Perspective

Sequeira, Tiago Neves - EconWPA - 2003

The years following the Second World War were those of the greatest economic growth that Europe had ever seen. If the countries of the Iberian Peninsula, neutral in the conflict and ruled by dictatorial regimes, enjoyed that growth and had participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland,...

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Crescimento Econ\363mico no P\363s-guerra: os Casos de Espanha, Portugal e Irlanda

Sequeira, Tiago - EconWPA - 2002

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