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Fertility decline, baby boom and economic growth

Murphy, Kevin M; Simon, Curtis; Tamura, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

We present new data documenting the secular decline in fertility in the states of the United States, the dramatic convergence in fertility, child schooling, parental schooling, survival probabilities. In addition we document the disparate nature of the Baby Boom in the United States. There were...

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Black and White Fertility, Differential Baby Booms: The Value of Civil Rights

Tamura, Robert; Simon, Curtis; Murphy, Kevin M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper presents new estimates of the benets of equal education opportunity for blacks over the period 1820-2000. For the better part of US history, blacks have enjoyed less access to schooling for their children than whites. This paper attempts to quantify the value of this discrimination....

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Economic growth In the long run

Tamura, Robert; Dwyer, Gerald P.; Devereux, John; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We present new data on real output per worker, schooling per worker, human capital per worker, real physical capital per worker for 168 countries. The output data represent all available data from Maddison. The physical capital data represent all available data from Mitchell. One major...

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Equilibrium and Optimal Fertility with Increasing Returns to Population and Endogenous Fertility

Cuberes, David; Tamura, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We present a general equilibrium dynamic model that characterizes the gap between optimal and equilibrium fertility and investment in human capital. In the model, the aggregate production function exhibits increasing returns to population arising from specialization but households face the...

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Data appendix for economic growth in the long run

Tamura, Robert; Dwyer, Gerald P; Devereux, John; Baier, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This extended data appendix describes the sources and methods used to construct the data used in our paper "Economic Growth in the Long Run."

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White discrimination in provision of black education: plantations and towns

Canaday, Neil; Tamura, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We present a model of public provision of education for blacks in two discriminatory regimes, white plantation controlled, and white town controlled. We show that the ability to migrate to a non-discriminating district constrains the ability of both types of whites to discriminate. The model...

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Sistema inter-regional sul-restante do Brasil: composição do efeito multiplicador de produção e emprego

Rodrigues, Rossana Lott; Moretto, Antonio Carlos; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

of final sectorial demand and to estimate the overflowing effect of production and employment of the input-output inter … 26 sectors, for the year 1999. The results of the distribution of the multiplier effect of production and employment … respect to the overflowing of employment, the greatest values found for the Rest of Brazil were for sector 17-Food industry …

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Employment and familiar agriculture agribusiness in the Brazilian economy: an interregional Leontief-Miyazawa model approach

Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins; Camargo, Fernanda … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

had an impact over employment generation and income sectors in the Familiar and Non-Familiar Agriculture Agribusiness in …

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Tertiary activities and informality: quantitative importance and interconnections within the economy in Brazil

Azzoni, Carlos Roberto; Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Leontief model. The results show: a) the importance of the Tertiary sector for the Brazilian economy in terms of employment …

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Impactos da agricultura de precisão na economia brasileira

Costa, Cinthia Cabral da; Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In order to estimate the potential impact of the adoption of the main techniques of precision agriculture in the Brazilian agriculture on socio economic development, this study used an extensive bibliographic review of the main results that the techniques of precision agriculture and simulated...

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