Narrow search
Showing 1 - 4 of 4
Cover Image
Are microloans bad for growth?
Emerson, Patrick M.; McGough, Bruce - 2010
externalities (social returns to education) there exists a range of microloan amounts that are growth depressing and welfare … divert investment away from human capital: by failing to internalize the social returns to education, households …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153583
Cover Image
Beware of workaholics : household preferences and individual equilibrium utility
Gersbach, Hans (contributor); Haller, Hans (contributor) - 2005
individual preferences and enjoy positive leisure-dependent externalities. For instance, a global sociological change where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002634134
Cover Image
The short- and longer-term effects of a child labor ban
Piza, Caio; Souza, André Portela; Emerson, Patrick M.; … - 2022
Are bans effective at lowering child labor and increasing school attendance and, if so, do these effects lead to positive outcomes later in life? This paper seeks to answer these questions by examining the effect of a 1998 Brazilian law that increased the minimum employment age from 14 to 16. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013209861
Cover Image
Child labor and the education of a society
Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - 2001
We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403095