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Cheap Children and the Persistence of Poverty

Moav, Omer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper develops a theory of fertility and child educational choice that offers an explanation for the persistence … human capital. As a result, the poor choose high fertility rates with low education investment and therefore, their … offspring are poor as well. Furthermore, the high fertility rates in poor economies dilute physical capital accumulation and …

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Growth in Transition: What we Know, What we Don't and What we Should

Campos, Nauro F; Coricelli, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This essay surveys macroeconomic issues that marked the transition from centrally planned to market economy in Central and Eastern European and former Soviet Union countries. We first establish a set of stylized facts of the transition so far, namely: (1) output fell, (2) capital shrank, (3)...

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The Demographic Transition and the Emergence of Sustained Economic Growth

Galor, Oded - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

fertility rates and population growth in various regions of the world, enabling economies to convert a larger share of the …

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Spirit and the Process of Development

Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This research suggests that the evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of economic development and the evolution of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit evolved non-monotonically in the course of human history....

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From Stagnation to Growth: Unified Growth Theory

Galor, Oded - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper examines the process of development from an epoch of Malthusian stagnation to a state of sustained economic growth. The analysis focuses on recently advanced unified growth theories that capture the intricate evolution of income per capita, technology, and population over the course...

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Natural Selection and the Evolution of Life Expectancy

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This research advances an evolutionary growth theory that captures the pattern of life expectancy in the process of development, shedding new light on the sources of the remarkable rise in life expectancy since the Agricultural Revolution. The theory suggests that social, economic and...

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Does Longevity Cause Growth?

Hazan, Moshe; Zoabi, Hosny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This article challenges conventional wisdom by arguing that greater longevity cannot explain the significant accumulation of human capital during the transition from stagnation to growth. This is because greater longevity raises children’s future income proportionally at all levels of...

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Love and Money: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Household Sorting and Inequality

Fernández, Raquel; Guner, Nezih; Knowles, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

initial conditions. The degree of marital sorting, wage inequality, per capita income and fertility differentials are …

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Death and Development

Lorentzen, Peter L.; McMillan, John; Wacziarg, Romain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

fertility, and lower investment in physical and human capital. Furthermore, the feedback effect from economic prosperity to …

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Poverty, inequality and growth in Albania : empirical evidence, 2002 - 05

Mastromarco, Camilla; Peragine, Vitorocco; Russo, Felice; … - In: The economics of transition 22 (2014) 4, pp. 635-682

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