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, leaving the relative return between quality and quantity unaffected …. This result is consistent with historical evidence that longevity began to increase long before education did. Our theory …

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 …

technology. Even today less than half of the school-age children are going to school. Some common but many of them disputed … perceptions about lower school-enrolment rate, at the household level are that the younger age children, younger in their brothers … and sisters, male children, and the children from educated parents; high-income households; smaller households; wealthy …

The added worker effect states that unemployment of a household member leads to an increase in labour supply of another … have more entitlements, waiting in unemployment for a good job is not one of them. We carry out two separate analyses to … no added worker effect. This suggests that households have other ways to cope with unemployment and is consistent with …

supply in the Baltic countries respond to changes in minimum wages, unemployment benefits and retirement regulation? Do the … for increasing participation in each of the countries. Recent rates of transition from unemployment to employment and to …