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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 …

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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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The Impact of Female Employment on the Likelihood and Timing of Second and Higher Order Pregnancies

Harvey S. James Jr. - EconWPA - 1996

This paper examines the effects of married women's employment on their fertility behavior in the United States. Data … transition to third pregnancy. In addition, this paper demonstrates that an appropriate method of modeling the fertility and …

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A Dynamic Decision Model of Marriage, Childbearing, and Labor Force Participation of Women in Japan

Ueda, Atsuko - EconWPA - 2000

participation for women in Japan, motivated by the recent decrease in the number of marriages and the total fertility rate. Using …

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Generalizing the Causal Effect of Fertility on Female Labor Supply

Cruces, Guillermo; Galiani, Sebastian - EconWPA - 2003

We study the effect of fertility on labor supply in Argentina and Mexico exploiting a source of exogenous variability … both qualitatively and quantitatively to the populations of two developing countries where, compared to the US, fertility …

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Socio-economic characteristics, completed fertility, and the transition from low to high order parities in Mexico

Miranda, Alfonso - EconWPA - 2003

The present paper reports a study on the socio-economic determinants of completed fertility in Mexico. Special …-economic characteristics have played in the process of adoption and diffusion of a low fertility norm in Mexico. Hurdle Poisson and Negative …, empirical results suggest that ethnic background does not constitute an obstacle for the diffusion of a low fertility norm …

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Human Capital: Infrastructural and Superstructural Constraints to Economic Performance across U.S. Native American Reservations and Trust Lands

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004

The current research emphasis on institutions as key determinants of economic performance, rather than on resources and resource productivity, has uncovered important questions for further research. For example, if institutions are central to economic performance, then what explains observed...

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Economic Performance in a Cross-Section of U.S. Native American Economies

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004

Institutions either promote or constrain economic performance, but which parts of institutions advance or restrict performance, and why do economies sharing similar institutions sometimes perform differently? This paper is a modest attempt at addressing a small part of these questions. It...

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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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Natural Selection and the Evolution of Life Expectancy

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer - EconWPA - 2004

This research develops an evolutionary growth theory that captures the intricate time path of life expectancy in the process of development, shedding new light on the origin of the remarkable rise in life expectancy since the Agricultural Revolution. The theory argues that social, economic and...

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