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increasing education and declining labor supply (of cohorts born 1850-1950) as an optimal response to increasing active life …-run economic development. -- longevity ; active life expectancy ; education ; hours worked ; economic growth. …
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firms. In so doing we integrate a micro-founded education and fertility decision of households into a model of international … in the education level of its population, ii) the export share of a country decreases in the birth rate of its population …, iii) the average profitability of firms increases in the education level of a country, iv) the average profitability of …
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greater inequality. To investigate this we construct a dynamic model of intergenerational education acquisition, fertility … fertility and education, a decreasing marginal effect of parental education on children's years of education, and wages that are …
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ability to perform complex tasks. The data suggests that the sorting effect of education is an important determinant of …
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A structural model of the demand for college attendance is derived from the theory of comparative advantage and recent statistical models of self-selection and unobserved components. Estimates from NBER-Thorndike data strongly support the theory. First, expected lifetime earnings gains influence...
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It can be claimed that education is simply a normal consumption good and that like all other normal goods, an increase …
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Section I introduces the material. In section II a model is developed which explores the impact of input-quality uncertainty on factor demand from which is derived a rationale for the use of devices which segment the population into classes differing in their "skill" distribution parameters. The...
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between education and allocative efficiency. Section I is reprinted from my J.P.E. paper "Education in Production". Section II …
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institutional structure to attitudes such as trust, individualism, and nepotism. Using data from Turkey and leveraging an education …
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