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Spatial dynamics and convergence: the spatial AK model

BOUCEKKINE, Raouf; CAMACHO, Carmen; FABBRI, Giorgio - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2010

same (detrended) consumption over space and time, lead to convergence in the level of capital across locations in the long-run. …

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Economic Growth

CROIX, David de la - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2014

Abstract: The first challenge for economic growth theory is to understand the transition from stagnation to growth at the time of the Industrial Revolution and in particular to identify the main factor(s) that triggered the take-off. Doing so also helps to understand why there are poor and rich...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010961076

Education Funding and Regional Convergence

de la Croix, David; Monfort, Philippe - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1999

The aim of this paper is to discuss the process of regional convergence within the framework of an overlapping … education funding systems and compare their performance in terms of growth rates and pace of convergence between two …-off between long run growth rate and short run convergence. In such choice, the initial capital stock and the extent of regional …

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Informality and long-run growth

DOCQUIER, Frédéric; MÜLLER, Tobias; NAVAL, Joaquín - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013

-skilled workers from extreme poverty in the short-run, it prevents income convergence between developed and developing nations in the …

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Development Policies when Accounting for the Extensive Margin of Fertility

BAUDIN, Thomas; CROIX, David de la; GOBBI, Paula - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2015

Beyond natural sterility, there are two main types of childlessness: one driven by poverty and another by the high opportunity cost to child-rearing. We argue that taking childlessness and its causes into account matters for assessing the impact of development policies on fertility. We measure...

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Would empowering women initiate the demographic transition in least-developing countries ?

David, DE LA CROIX; Marie, VANDER DONCKT - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2008

We examine the pathways by which gender inequality affects fertility and hampers growth. We introduce several dimensions of gender inequality into a 2-sex OLG model with a non-unitary representation of household decision-making. We characterize a Malthusian corner regime which is characterized...

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To Segregate or to Integrate : Education Politics and Democracy

David, DE LA CROIX; Matthias, DOEPKE - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2003

In most democracies, the majority of education expenditures is financed by the government. In non-democracies, we observe a wide variation in the mix of public and private funding of education. In addition, countries with high inequality tend to rely more heavily on private schooling. We develop...

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