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Does the Mortality Decline Promote Economic Growth?

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - EconWPA - 2002

This paper analyzes qualitatively and quantitatively the e ects of declining mortality rates on fertility, education … survival, a decline in an exogenous mortality rate reduces precautionary demand for children and increases parental investment … in each child. Once mortality is endogenized, population growth becomes a hump-shaped function of income per capita. At …

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Maintaining Momentum to 2015? An impact evaluation of interventions to improve maternal and child health and nutrition in Bangladesh

White, Howard; Masset, Edoardo; Blondal, Nina; … - EconWPA - 2005

Bangladesh has experienced rapid fertility decline and reductions in under-five mortality over the last three decades …

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Re-formulation of the Solow economic growth model whit the Richards population growth law

Accinelli, Elvio; Brida, Juan Gabriel - EconWPA - 2005

In standard economic growth theory it is usually assumed that labor force follows exponential growth. That is not a realistic assumption. In this paper we introduce a generalized logistic equation (Richards law) that describes more accurately population growth. Then we analyze the neoclassical...

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On the Function of Two Variables of Urban Population Density

Racorean, Ovidiu - EconWPA - 2004

This paper is a pure theoretical attempt to explain tendencies revealed in the last decade urban researches, such as decentralization of population toward the cities suburbs, formation of polycentric cities, by a process of alteration of city traditional monocentricity, in time, due to the...

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Closed form solutions to a generalization of the Solow growth model.

Maldonado, Erick José Limas; Brida, Juan Gabriel - EconWPA - 2005

The Solow growth model assumes that labor force grows exponentially. This is not a realistic assumption because, exponential growth implies that population increases to infinity as time tends to infinity. In this paper we propose replacing the exponential population growth with a simple and more...

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Optimum Population Growth with CIES Preference in the Infinite- Horizon Ramsey Model

Wang, Ralph Z. - EconWPA - 2005

When the preference over intertemporal consumptions is of CIES type and human capital enters the production function in a secific way, we show that the optimum population growth rate is exactly the subjective discount rate in an infinite-horizon Ramsey Model.

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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR:NIGERIA

NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005

GOOD HEALTH IS A CRUCIAL PART OF WELL-BEING BUT SPENDING ON HEALTH CAN BE JUSTIFIED ON ECONOMIC GROUNDS. THE GOAL OF REDUCING POVERTY PROVIDES A DIFFERENT BUT EQUALLY POWERFUL CASE FOR HEALTH INVESTMENTS. HOWEVER, IF POLICYMAKERS ARE TO ACCELERATE THE SUBSTANTIAL HEALTH GAINS OF RECENT DECADES,...

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Mortality and early growth in England, France, and Sweden

Lagerloef, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002

We set up an open-economy, three-country version of the endogenous- mortality model of Lagerloef (forthcoming in the … International Economic Review). The model is calibrated to pre-industrial mortality data from England, France and Sweden. Fitting … parameters to match observed rates of correlation in mortality rates, the model can also account for: (1) differences in the …

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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR POLICY REFORMS FOR NIGERIA:A PHASED PROJECT STUDY

NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005

Good health is a crucial part of well-being but spending on health can be justified on economic grounds. The goal of reducing poverty provides a different but equally powerful case for health investments. However, if policymakers are to accelerate the substantial health gains of recent decades,...

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Does Longevity Cause Growth

Hazan, Moshe; Zoabi, Hosny - EconWPA - 2005

This article challenges conventional wisdom by arguing that greater longevity cannot explain the significant accumulation of human capital during the transition from stagnation to growth. This is because greater longevity raises children's future income proportionally at all levels of education,...

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