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fertility and lower investment in physical and human capital. Furthermore, the feedback effect from economic prosperity to …
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league, an improvement in the productivity of sporting services, and subsidies to college education. …
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This appendix of our paper, "Demographic Change, Human Capital and Welfare", contains further material that could not be included in the paper due to space limitations. It is organized as follows. Section A contains the formal equilibrium definition. Section B provides more results on the fit of...
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This paper examines the extent to which intergenerational links through transfers of wealth and investment in human …
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literature, we assume that human capital investment is a) risky, b), done early in the life-cycle, and c) indistinguishable from …
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provide evidence that little of the IQ-productivity relationship is likely to be due to reverse causality. …
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College attainment differs nearly two-fold across U.S. states. This paper shows that highly educated states employ skill-biased technologies, specialize in skill-intensive industries, but do not pay lower skill premia. A theory based on agglomeration economies is developed to account for these...
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Barriers to trade lead to significant distortions in domestic prices and cause an inefficient allocation of resources across sectors. An expected outcome of a trade reform is a significant sectoral reallocation of labor in the economy. The amount and speed of the reallocation, however, will also...
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time. Early investments increase the productivity of later investments. Early investments are not productive if they are …
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