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The economic consequences of demographic change in East Asia : [NBER East Asia Seminar on Economics, volume 19 ; selection of papers presented at the 19th Annual East Asian Seminar...
Itō, Takatoshi (contributor); Rose, Andrew (contributor) - 2010
The demographic transition and economic growth in the Pacific Rim / Andrew Mason, Ronald Lee, and Sang-Hyop Lee ; comments: Jocelyn E. Finlay, Jong-Wha Lee -- Population aging and economic growth in Asia / David E. Bloom, David Canning, and Jocelyn E. Finlay ; comments: Roberto S. Mariano,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008936052
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The Lasting Effects of Early Childhood Education on Promoting the Skills and Social Mobility of Disadvantaged African Americans
García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper demonstrates multiple beneficial impacts of a program promoting intergenerational mobility for disadvantaged African-American children and their children. The program improves outcomes of the first-generation treatment group across the life cycle, which translates into better family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599347
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Shaping Inequality and Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty : Free College or Better Schools
Krueger, Dirk; Ludwig, Alexander; Popova, Irina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We evaluate the aggregate, distributional and welfare consequences of alternative government education policies to encourage college completion, such as making college free and improving funding for public schooling. To do so, we construct a general equilibrium overlapping generations model with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544745
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The problems of disadvantaged youth : an economic perspective
Gruber, Jonathan (ed.) - 2009
Introduction: what have we learned about the problems of and prospects for disadvantaged youth? / Jonathan Gruber -- Education : the behavioral consequences of pre-kindergarten participation for disadvantaged youth / David Figlio and Jeffrey Roth -- Is gaining access to selective elementary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003800493
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Tapping into Talent : Coupling Education and Innovation Policies for Economic Growth
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2020
How do innovation and education policy affect individual career choice and aggregate productivity? This paper analyzes … the various layers that connect R&D subsidies and higher education policy to productivity growth. We put the development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481166
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Policy Distortions and Aggregate Productivity with Heterogeneous Plants
Restuccia, Diego - 2007
We formulate a version of the growth model in which production is carried out by heterogeneous plants and calibrate it to US data. In the context of this model we argue that differences in the allocation of resources across heterogeneous plants may be an important factor in accounting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465637
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Policy Distortions and Aggregate Productivity with Endogenous Establishment-Level Productivity
Da-Rocha, José-María - 2017
What accounts for differences in output per capita and total factor productivity (TFP) across countries? Empirical … misallocation in a model where establishment-level productivity is endogenous and responds to the same policy distortions that … units (static effect), but also create disincentives for productivity improvement (dynamic effect) thereby affecting the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455342
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Has China's Growth Gone From Miracle to Malady?
Prasad, Eswar S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
major financial or economic crash. With a shrinking labor force and declining efficiency of investment, raising productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250169
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The defining moment : the Great Depression and the American economy in the twentieth century
Bordo, Michael D. (ed.); Goldin, Claudia (ed.);  … - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480824