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The Biocultural Origins of Human Capital Formation
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
finding further indicates that the optimal level of fecundity was below the population median, lending credence to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959539
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Be Fruitful and Multiply? Moderate Fecundity and Long-Run Reproductive Success
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
the population median, suggesting that the forces of natural selection favored individuals with a lower level of fecundity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752232
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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Modin, Bitte - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
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Celebrating 150 Years of Analyzing Fertility Trends in Germany
Kendzia, Michael J.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Ever since the very beginning of the Journal of Economics and Statistics, population economics has featured prominently … in the Journal. Fertility naturally plays an important role in population economics. Its size has decreased significantly … the beginning. It points out that several articles anticipated subsequent research directions in the area of population …
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The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle; Voena, Alessandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women and men is much larger in developing compared to developed countries. Historically, even in countries that are now rich women had few rights before economic development took...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403388
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Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We construct a theory of intergenerational preference transmission that rationalizes the choice between alternative parenting styles (related to Baumrind 1967). Parents maximize an objective function that combines Beckerian and paternalistic altruism towards children. They can affect their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604104
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Human Capital Formation, Life Expectancy and the Process of Economic Development
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper presents a microfounded theory of long-term development. We model the interplay between economic variables, namely the process of human capital formation and technological progress, and the biological constraint of finite lifetime expectancy. All these processes affect each other and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822453
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Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility: A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition
Sunde, Uwe; Cervellati, Matteo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
. Unlike previous models, the framework emphasizes the education composition of the population in terms of the equilibrium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763470
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Life Expectancy and Economic Growth: The Role of the Demographic Transition
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
transition improvements in life expectancy primarily increase population. Improvements in life expectancy do, however, reduce … population growth and foster human capital accumulation after the onset of the demographic transition. This implies that the … effect of life expectancy on population, human capital and income per capita is not the same before and after the demographic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999937
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The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775592