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Persistent Inequality: An Explanation Based on Limited Parental Altruism
Das, Mausumi - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper provides an explanation for the observed persistence in income inequality across households in terms limited parental altruism. It is postulated that the degree of parental altruism is ‘limited’ by the financial status of the parent. [CDE WP 101].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341789
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Mortality, Human Capital and Persistent Inequality
Das, Mausumi; Chakraborty, Shankha - eSocialSciences - 2010
Available evidence suggests high intergenerational correlation of economic status, and persistent disparities in health status between the rich and the poor. This paper proposes a novel mechanism linking the two. Health human capital is introduced into a two-period overlapping generations model....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543124
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The Economics of Human Cloning
Paul, Gilles Saint - eSocialSciences - 2010
people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at the bottom of the distribution of income specialize in surrogacy … workers have a top ability if fertility is uncorrelated with ability and if the distribution of ability among sexually …, rather than abilities, is preserved by sexual reproduction, then cloning eliminates ability-reducing genes but does not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008532010
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Institutional Influences on Human Capital Accumulation: Micro Evidence from Children Vulnerable to Bondage
Edmonds, Eric - eSocialSciences - 2007
The paper examines child labour, lower schooling attendance and attainment, and significantly elevated fertility in families vulnerable to debt bondage.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528288
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Literacy Traps: Society-wide Education and Individual Skill Premia
Basu, Kaushik; Atal, Vidya; Gray, John; Lee, Travis - eSocialSciences - 2009
Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy trap in which each individual finds it not worthwhile investing in higher skills because others are not high-skilled. The model sheds light on educational policy. It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512470
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Are Gender Differentials in Educational Capabilities Mediated through Institutions of Caste and Religion in India?
Unni, Jeemol - eSocialSciences - 2009
religion mediate access and returns to education of men and women. The effort is to discuss whether, the capabilities approach … and returns to education compared with knowledge about the dynamics of capability formation generated through a mixture of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008566188
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Human Capital, Labour Productivity and Employment
Bhat, Savita; Siddharthan, N S - eSocialSciences - 2010
technology, persons with less education would become victims. The panel model results of Generalised Least Squares using cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008690331
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Whither Human Capital? The Woeful Tale of Transition to Tertiary Education in India
Chakrabarty, Manisha; Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar - eSocialSciences - 2012
In this paper the issue of high dropout rates in India is examined which has adverse implications for human capital formation, and hence for the country’s long term growth potential. Using the 2004-05 National Sample Survey employment-unemployment survey data, transition probabilities of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493973
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Adolescent Fertility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Effects and Solutions
McQueston, Kate; Silverman, Rachel; Glassman, Amanda - eSocialSciences - 2012
Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to school dropout, lost productivity, and the intergenerational transmission of poverty. However, there is debate about whether adolescent pregnancy is a problem in and of itself or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010548435
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What Education? Imperative of Change
Maharatna, Arup - eSocialSciences - 2006
Once the reach of education remains circumscribed only by its functional role in the formation of human capital, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319311