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Adult longevity and economic take-off : from Malthus to Ben-Porath

David, DE LA CROIX - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2008

We propose four arguments favoring the idea that medical effectiveness, adult longevity and height started to increase in Europe before the industrial revolution. This may have prompted households to increase their investment in human skills as a response to longer lives and initiated the...

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Brain Drain, Inequality and Growth

Fabio, MARIANI - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2004

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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Education, emploi et participation au marché du travail dans un modèle d’appariement

CHARLOT, Olivier - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2005

Les travailleurs bénéficient de performances différentes sur le marché du travail en fonction de leur âge : le taux d'emploi exhibe une trajectoire en cloche en fonction de l'âge, tandis que le taux de chômage est continuellement décroissant. Au cours des dernières décennies, le taux...

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Overeducation at the start of the career - stepping stone or trap?

BAERT, Stijn; COCKX, Bart; VERHAEST, Dieter - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2012

This study investigates whether young unemployed graduates who accept a job below their level of education accelerate or delay the transition into a job that matches their level of education. We adopt the Timing of Events approach to identify this dynamic treatment effect using monthly calendar...

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Evaluating the “Threat” Effects of Grade Repetition. Exploiting the 2001 Reform by the French-Speaking Community of Belgium

BELOT, Michèle; VANDENBERGHE, Vincent - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2011

/worse outcomes due to programme participation (i.e. the fact that pupils repeat a particular grade). This is what the existing … literature on grade repetition has focused on. Another potential outcome is the ‘threat’ effect of grade repetition. Pupils and … pupils could be a function of the risk of grade repetition. This paper attempts to assess that relationship by exploiting a …

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Grade retention and educational attainment. Exploiting the 2001 Reform by the French-Speaking Community of Belgium and Synthetic Control Methods

BELOT, Michele; VANDENBERGHE, Vincent - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2009

weaker pupils, pupils who would presumably be disadvantaged by being promoted directly to higher grades. This is a minimum …

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Assessing the Parfit's Repugnant Conclusion within a canonical endogenous growth set-up

BOUCEKKINE, Raouf; FABBRI, Giorgio - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2010

Parfit's Repugnant Conclusion stipulates that under total utilitarianism, it might be optimal to choose increasing population size while consumption per capita goes to zero. We evaluate this claim within a canonical AK model with endogenous fertility and a reduced form relationship between...

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Growth and Longevity from the Industrial Revolution to the Future of an Aging Society

David, DE LA CROIX; Bo, MALMBERG - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2006

Aging of the population will affect the growth path of all countries. To assess the historical and future importance of this claim we use two popular approaches and evaluate their merits and disadvantages by confronting them to Swedish data. We first stimulate an endogenous growth. Rising...

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Regional school comparison and school choice : how do they relate to student performance ? Evidence from PISA 2003

Maresa, SPRIETSMA - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2006

study the impact of schools comparing their pupil’s results to a regional or national performance standard and that of …

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A closer look at the relationship between life expectancy and economic growth

Raouf, BOUCEKKINE; Bity, DIENE; Théophile, AZOMAHOU - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2007

We first provide a nonparametric inference of the relationship between life expectancy and economic growth on an historical data for 18 countries over the period 1820-2005. The obtained shape shows up convexity for low enough values of life expectancy and concavity for large enough values. We...

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