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Health Capital Provision and Human Capital Accumulation
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2020
This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with endogenous fertility, in which the usual parental trade-off...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840695
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Immigration, fertility, and human capital: A model of economic decline of the West
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2010
I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous low-skilled workers lose from unskilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270531
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Health Capital Provision and Human Capital Accumulation
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2020
This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with endogenous fertility, in which the usual parental trade-off...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207881
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Health Dynamics Shape Life-Cycle Incomes
Kotschy, Rainer Franz - 2019
This paper empirically investigates the long-run effects of major health improvements on income growth in the United States. To isolate exogenous changes in health, the econometric model uses quasi-experimental variation in cardiovascular disease mortality across states over time. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179752
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Techies and Firm Level Productivity
Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2023
We study the impact of techies—engineers and other technically trained workers—on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348039
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Ethnofederalism and Ethnic Voting
Bluhm, Richard; Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul - 2021
We investigate how changes in the administrative-territorial structure affect ethnic voting. We present an event study design that exploits the 2010 constitutional reform in Kenya, which substantially increased the number of primary administrative regions. We find (i) strong evidence for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211015
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Long-Term Macroeconomic Effects of Climate Change: A Cross-Country Analysis
Kahn, Matthew E.; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Ng, Ryan N. C.; … - 2019
where labour productivity is affected by country-specific climate variables. defined as deviations of temperature and … productivity and employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052844
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Unraveling the fortunes of the fortunate: an Iterative Bayesian Model Averaging (IBMA) approach
Eicher, Theo S.; Papageorgiou, Chris; Roehn, Oliver - 2007
We investigate country heterogeneity in cross-country growth regressions. In contrast to the previous literature that focuses on low-income countries, this study also highlights growth determinants in high-income (OECD) countries. We introduce Iterative Bayesian Model Averaging (IBMA) to address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264062
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Climate Change and Economic Activity: Evidence from U.S. States
Mohaddes, Kamiar; Ng, Ryan N. C.; Pesaran, M. Hashem; … - 2022
sectors, and on labour productivity and employment in the United States. Moreover, in contrast to most cross-country results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177576
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Climate Change and Economic Activity : Evidence from U.S. States
Mohaddes, Kamiar; C. Ng, Ryan N.; Pesaran, M. Hashem; … - 2022
sectors, and on labour productivity and employment in the United States. Moreover, in contrast to most cross-country results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013306954