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traditional equilibrium, contraceptives are not used, fertility is high and education and growth are low. At the modern … equilibrium, contraceptives are used, fertility is low and further declining with increasing income, and education and growth are … provide more education for their children and leads to an earlier uptake of modern contraceptives and an earlier onset of the …
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It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the “latitude gradient”...
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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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For most of human history there existed a well-educated and innovative elite whereas mass education, market R&D, and … model for the very long run in which the individual-specific return to education is conceptualized as an compound of … determines whether an individual experiences education and a locally stable steady state at which education is determined by …
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We present a theory explaining the impact of ability tracking on academic performance based on grading policies. Our model distinguishes between initial ability, which is mainly determined by parental background, and eagerness to extend knowledge. We show that achievements of low ability...
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This paper analyzes professors' effect from a fundamental first-year course in Economics on students' later performance in follow-on courses with a special attention given to the problem of self-selection bias of students toward certain professors. Based on an extensive dataset consisting of...
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We set up a unified growth model with gender-specific differences in tastes for consumption, fertility, education of … developed countries, we assume that mothers desire to have no more children than fathers and to invest no less in education per … education, and sluggish economic growth towards a state of low fertility, high education, and fast economic growth if the child …
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This paper studies the determinants of academic success using a unique administrative data set of a German university. We show that high school grades are strongly associated with both graduation probabilities and final grades, whereas variables measuring social origin or income have only a...
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