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Very few studies have explored the optimality properties of the "standard model" of fertility where parents must …
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This paper provides an additional channel through which inequality may influence growth, when labor migration is taken into account. In fact, we show that human capital distribution is crucial to determine whether allowing migration of the most skilled workers from a developing country may be...
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by sources of school funding, expenditres per pupil, and types of parents who are more likely to send children to …-skilled natives to privately invest in their children’s education and hence weakens their support to finance public school. The … endogenous fertility, the opting-out decision taken by some native parents results in the empirically observed fertility …
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We evaluate the effect of technology, demographics and policy on the differential evolution of the skill premium and on the rise in education investment in France and the USA. We use a computable general equilibrium model with overlapping generations of individuals, and endogenous education...
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The aim of this paper is to understand the role of uncertainty in education choices and therefore in growth. We consider an overlapping generations model in which endogenous growth is introduced through human capital accumulation. We introduce uncertainty as to the individual returns to...
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This paper examines the dynamics of the skill supply and its incidence on economic growth in the presence of education policies. When there are indivisibilities in the financing of human capital, small differences in the initial distribution of skills may greatly affect the stationary...
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The World Bank's Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for 2009-2012 marks Indonesia's re-emergence as a confident middle-income country, and one that is enjoying a rising regional and global standing. Ten years ago, Indonesia was in the middle of an extremely severe economic crisis. Today,...
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