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Density versus Quality in Health Care Provision: Using Household Data to Make Budgetary Choices in Ethiopia

Collier, Paul; Dercon, Stefan; Mackinnon, John - EconWPA - 2004

Usage of health facilities in Ethiopia is among the lowest in the world; raising usage rates is probably critical for improving health outcomes. The government has diagnosed the principal problem as the lack of primary health facilities and is devoting a large share of the health budget to...

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Stages of Growth in Economic Development

Kejak, Michal - EconWPA - 2001

The paper analyses a two-sector model of endogenous growth with two common features of economic development: stages of sustained growth and underdevelopment traps. The model also demonstrates the transitional issues of a temporary underdevelopment trap, seemingly sustainable growth, and a...

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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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Determinants of Economic Growth and the Role of Human Capital in New Growth Models [in Turkish]

Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2005

This paper briefly summarizes and discusses that type of new growth models which are based on externalities created by investments in human capital. ***** TURKCE OZET: Bu makalede, yeni/içsel buyume modellerinin beseri sermayeye dayali turlerini ozetlemekte ve degerlendirmektedir. [Calisma...

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Returns to Education, Child Labor, & Schooling in India

Chamarbagwala, Rubiana - EconWPA - 2004

In an environment where children's time has an economic value and employment opportunities for educated workers are …

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Does Industrialization = "Development"? The Effects of Industrialization on School Enrollment and Youth Employment in Indonesia

Federman, Maya; Levine, David I. - EconWPA - 2004

This study examines the relationship between rising manufacturing employment and school enrollment in Indonesia from … links between manufacturing and enrollments remain unclear. At the household level, employment of adult females in …

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Apparent Solow- and Solow-like Technological Residuals and the Economic Performance of U.S. Native American Economies

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - EconWPA - 2004

This paper decomposes the large regression residuals of income across 84 U.S. Native American economies (USNAEs) into Solow and Solow-like parts. Decomposition is accomplished algebraically. The calculations find a weak to negative correlation between income and Solow residuals, and a strong...

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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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Social Networks in Determining Employment and Wages: Patterns, Dynamics, and Inequality

Calvo-Armengol, Antoni; Jackson, Matthew O. - EconWPA - 2002

social contacts. We show that an improvement in the employment status of either an agent's direct or indirect contacts leads … to an increase in the agent's employment probability and expected wages, in the sense of first order stochastic dominance … show that employment is positively correlated across time and agents, and the same is true for wages. Moreover …

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Review of TCF Assistance

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

The Commission was asked to evaluate current assistance arrangements to the TCF industries and provide policy options for post 2005 assistance and to report on a range of related matters that will affect the sector's long-term viability. The inquiry will also look at relevant workplace issues...

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