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Land reforms, status and population growth
Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2014
In this document, we consider the effects of a land reform on economic and demographic growth by a family-optimization model with sharecropping, endogenous fertility and status seeking. We show that tenant farming is the major obstacle to escaping the Malthusian trap with high fertility and low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337427
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Samuelson's contributions to population theory and overlapping generations in economics
Lee, Ronald Demos - 2019
Paul Samuelson made a series of important contributions to population theory for humans and other species, evolutionary … theory, and the theory of age structured life cycles in economic equilibrium and growth. The work is highly abstract but much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012027303
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Fiscal competition and the composition of public spending : theory and evidence
Borck, Rainald (contributor); Caliendo, Marco (contributor);  … - 2006
In this paper, we consider fiscal competition between jurisdictions. Capital taxes are used to finance a public input and two public goods, one which benefits mobile skilled workers and one which benefits immobile unskilled workers. We derive the jurisdictions' reaction functions for different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003497954
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Using spatial econometric techniques to analyze the joint employment decisions of spouses
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Lacombe, Donald J. - 2014
Studies of the joint time-use decisions of spouses have relied on joint estimation of time-use equations, sometimes assuming correlated errors across spouses' equations and sometimes directly examining the effects of one spouse's time use on another's, relying on panel data or instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010259539
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Why variable-population social orderings cannot escape the repugnant conclusion : proofs and implications
Spears, Dean; Budolfson, Mark - 2019
conclusion. Therefore, the repugnant conclusion provides no methodological guidance for theory or policymaking, because it cannot …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121586
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Life expectancy and economic growth : the role of the demographic transition
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2009
the role of the econometric specification. We present a simple theory of the economic and demographic transition where … individuals' education and fertility decisions depend on their life expectancy. The theory predicts that before the demographic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003837588
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Human capital formation, life expectancy and the process of economic development
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2003 - (Updated May 2003)
This paper presents a non-Malthusian theory of long-term development We model the interplay between the process of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413569
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Population growth and multiple equilibria : inferences from a modified Ramsey model
Lehmijoki, Ulla - 2011
The demographic transition is introduced into the otherwise standard Ramsey model to generate multiple equilibria, poverty traps, and demography-driven cycles. The model is calibrated for global data to explore the demographic conditions under which multiplicity is realized. Three cases arise,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009130124
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Pension policies in a model with endogenous fertility
Cipriani, Giam Pietro; Pascucci, Francesco - 2018
We set up an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility to study pensions policies in an ageing economy. We show that an increasing life expectancy may not be detrimental for the economy or the pension system itself. On the other hand, conventional policy measures, such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011855784
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Endogenous indoctrination : occupational choice, the evolution of beliefs, and the political economy of reform
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009
favourable to the market economy. Two parameters that govern this capacity to learn are social entropy and heritability. Social … entropy defines how predictable one's occupation is as a function of one's beliefs. Heritability is the weight of the family …'s beliefs in the determination of the priors of a new generation. Both heritability and social entropy reduce the bias and makes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902085