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Epidemics, gender, and human capital in developing countries
Fabrizio, Stefania; Gomes, Diego Braz Pereira; … - 2021
Epidemics have disrupted lives for centuries with deleterious human capital and economic repercussions. In this paper, we investigate how epidemics episodes have impacted school dropouts in developing countries, considering 623 epidemics episodes across countries from 1970 to 2019. Our estimates...
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Returns to Human Capital and Investment in New Technology
Luzio, Rodolfo - 2001
accumulation and the adoption of new technologies. The study compares key economic indicators among Canada, France, Germany, the …
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Migration and Human Capital Formation : Theory and Evidence From the U.S. High School Movement
Ramcharan, Rodney - 2002
In 1910, 12 percent of American 14-17 year olds were enrolled in high school; by 1930, enrollment had increased to 50 percent; enrollment in Britain was 12 percent in 1950. This paper argues that by increasing the skill premium, the massive inflows of European unskilled immigrants at the turn of...
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Composition of Government Expenditure, Human Capital Accumulation, and Welfare
Matovu, John - 2000
This paper uses a dynamic general equilibrium model calibrated to Ugandan data to examine the welfare effects of alternative scenarios of government expenditure and tax financing. Two expenditure types are considered: social spending that affects human capital, and infrastructure expenditures...
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Human Capital Accumulation and Public Sector Growth
Tanzi, Vito - 1995
The present paper takes a fresh theoretical and empirical look into the relationship between Wagner’s law and economic development. It introduces human capital into a classic two-sector model of unbalanced growth. It shows that, as an economy develops, changes in the relative returns to human...
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Destabilizing the global monetary system : Germany's adoption of the gold standard in the early 1870s
Wiegand, Johannes - 2019
In 1871-73, newly unified Germany adopted the gold standard, replacing the silver-based currencies that had been … block. Why did Germany switch to gold and set the train of destructive events in motion? Both a review of the … France, which would have severed the link between gold and silver currencies. Without reform, Germany would thus have risked …
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Benefits of Different Transport Modes : Report of the Ninety-Third Round Table on Transport Economics Held in Paris on 30 June-1 July 1992
1994
Much research has focussed on the negative aspects of transport (emissions, noise, congestion and safety problems), particularly with respect to road traffic. The ECMT decided to organise a Round Table which would consider the transport sector differently, by looking at the benefits of different...
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The Impact of Infrastructural Investment on Economic Development : Report of the Fourth Round Table on Transport Economics Held in Paris onHeld in Paris on 23-24 October 1969
1969
This Round Table examines the impact of infrastructure investment on economic development for several cases: the A7 Lyons-Bollene section in France, the situation in general in Belgium, a motorway in the UK, and a railway line investment in Yugoslavia.
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