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Fighting poverty and child malnutrition: on the design of foreign aid policies
VASILAKIS, Chrysovalantis - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2011
In this paper, we have developed a two-period overlapping-generation model featuring the effects of child nutrition in developing countries. The model gives rise to multiple equilibria including a poverty trap. It shows that child nutrition status may affect the development of human capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009350366
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Economic Development and the Family Structure: from the Pater Familias to the Nuclear Family
PENSIEROSO, Luca; SOMMACAL, Alessandro - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2010
fast enough, the economy experiences a shift from stagnation to growth, there is a transition from coresidence to non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008751416
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DINKs, DEWKs & Co. Marriage, Fertility and Childlessness in the United States
BAUDIN, Thomas; CROIX, David de la; GOBBI, Paula - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2012
Among possible lifestyles, the DINKs (“double income no kids”) are couples choosing to be childless, while the DEWKs (“dually employed with kids”) are couples with children. We develop a theory of marriage and parenthood decisions, where we distinguish the choice to have children from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075077
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Development Policies when Accounting for the Extensive Margin of Fertility
BAUDIN, Thomas; CROIX, David de la; GOBBI, Paula - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2015
Beyond natural sterility, there are two main types of childlessness: one driven by poverty and another by the high opportunity cost to child-rearing. We argue that taking childlessness and its causes into account matters for assessing the impact of development policies on fertility. We measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265925
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Would empowering women initiate the demographic transition in least-developing countries ?
David, DE LA CROIX; Marie, VANDER DONCKT - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2008
We examine the pathways by which gender inequality affects fertility and hampers growth. We introduce several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004984722
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How growth and location are sensitive to transport and telecommunication infrastructures?
RIOU, Stéphane - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2003
This paper is an extension of the new economic geography and growth model of Martin (1999) which proposes an … that only a policy improving telecommunication can reduce regional inequalities and attain higher aggregate growth rate. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004985378
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Geoengineering as an alternative to mitigation: specification and dynamic implications
STERCK, Olivier - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2011
Geoengineering, i.e. the use of artificial techniques aiming at cooling the planet, is increasingly considered as a realistic alternative to emission mitigation. Several methods are promising for their capacity to quickly halt global warming at a moderate cost. Such cheap technologies might be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009350372
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Climatic factors as determinants of International Migration
BEINE, Michel; PARSONS, Christopher - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2012
In this paper, we examine environmental factors as potential determinants of international migration. We distinguish between unexpected short-run factors, captured by natural disasters, as well as long-run climate change and climate variability captured by deviations and volatilities of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533744
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Is History a Blessing or a Curse? International Borrowing without Commitment, Leapfrogging and Growth Reversals
BOUCEKKINE, Raouf; PINTUS, Patrick A. - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2010
We develop a simple open-economy AK model with collateral constraints that accounts for growth-reversal episodes …, during which countries face abrupt changes in their growth rate that lead to either growth miracles or growth disasters … from perfect contract enforcement, the history effect offsets the growth benefits from international borrowing and dampens …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008751412
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AK growth models: new evidence based on fractional integration and breaking trends
Cunado, Juncal; Gil-Alana, Luis A.; Garcia, Fernando … - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2009
According to AK growth models, permanent changes in investment rates have permanent effects on a country’s rate of … economic growth. Jones (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1995, 110, 495-525) finds strong evidence against this prediction … studying the time series properties of GDP growth rates and investment output ratios in fifteen OECD countries for the period …
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