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Why isn't convergence instantaneous? : Young workers, old workers, and gradual adjustment
Kremer, Michael - In: Journal of economic growth 3 (1998) 1, pp. 5-28
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Young workers, old workers, and convergence
Kremer, Michael - 1994
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Young Workers, Old Workers, and Convergence
Kremer, Michael; Thomson, Jim - 2021
The human capital of young and old workers are imperfect substitutes both in production and in on-the-job training. This helps explain why capital does not flow from rich to poor countries, causing instantaneous convergence of per capita output. If each generation chooses its human capital...
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Young Workers, Old Workers, and Convergence
Kremer, Michael - 1994
The human capital of young and old workers are imperfect substitutes both in production and in on-the-job training. This helps explain why capital does not flow from rich to poor countries, causing instantaneous convergence of per capita output. If each generation chooses its human capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474088
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Mosquitoes : the long-term effects of malaria eradication in India
Cutler, David M.; Fung, Winnie; Kremer, Michael; … - 2007
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Mosquitoes : the long-term effects of malaria eradication in India
Cutler, David M.; Fung, Winnie; Kremer, Michael; … - 2007
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Mosquitoes : The Long-Term Effects of Malaria Eradication in India
Cutler, David M. - 2010
We examine the effects of malaria on educational attainment and income by exploiting geographic variation in malaria … income for prime age men. This finding is robust to using very localized sources of geographic variation and to instrumenting … for pre-eradication prevalence with climate factors. We do not observe improvements in income for women, suggesting that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759759
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Mosquitoes : The Long-term Effects of Malaria Eradication in India
Cutler, David - 2007
We examine the effects of malaria on educational attainment and income by exploiting geographic variation in malaria … income for prime age men. This finding is robust to using very localized sources of geographic variation and to instrumenting … for pre-eradication prevalence with climate factors. We do not observe improvements in income for women, suggesting that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465107
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Mosquitoes : The Long-term Effects of Malaria Eradication in India
Cutler, David M.; Fung, Winnie; Kremer, Michael; … - 2009
We examine the effects of malaria on educational attainment by exploiting geographic variation in malaria prevalence in India prior to a nationwide eradication program in the 1950s. Malaria eradication resulted in gains in literacy and primary school completion rates of approximately 12...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014223723
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When should governments subsidize health? : the case of mass deworming
Ahuja, Amrita; Baird, Sarah; Hicks, Joan Hamory; … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281235