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Life expectancy, schooling and lifetime labor supply: the Ben-Porath mechanism revisited

Liu, Pan - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 1, pp. 133-139

life expectancy has a positive effect on schooling but a negative effect on expected lifetime labor supply. This paper …

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Child Labour, human capital formation and size of landholding: short run and long run analysis

Chakraborty, Bidisha; Chakraborty, Kamalika - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 3, pp. 2024-2037

capital accumulation of child depends on time devoted by child for schooling and financial resources invested towards … run as well as long run effects of increase in size of land holding on child labour, human capital formation and growth … and earns wage proportional to human capital and the child is employed in the land possessed by the household and also …

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Re-examining the pollution-income relationship: a random coefficients approach

Cole, Matthew - In: Economics Bulletin 14 (2005) 1, pp. 1-7

This paper re-examines the pollution-income relationship using a random coefficients model to allow for greater cross-country heterogeneity. The existence of a common pollution-income relationship across countries is rejected and hence little support for the environmental Kuznets curve is found.

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Will rising household incomes solve China's micronutrient deficiency problems?

Shankar, Bhavani; Liu, Yi - In: Economics Bulletin 15 (2007) 10, pp. 1-14

Rapid economic growth in China has resulted in substantially improved household incomes. Diets have also changed, with a movement away from traditional foods and towards animal products and processed foods. Yet micronutrient deficiencies, particularly for calcium and vitamin A, are still...

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Enforcement with Costly Group Formation

Sarangi, Sudipta; Chatterjee, Prabirendra - In: Economics Bulletin 15 (2005) 9, pp. 1-8

The joint liability literature claims that positive assortative matching, or risk homogeneity, is always the first best solution. We examine this claim in presence of group formation costs and find that the assertion is not always true.

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An Empirical Illustration of Positive Stigma towards Child Labor

Patrinos, Harry A; Shafiq, Najeeb - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 1, pp. 799-807

This empirical note complements the qualitative and theoretical research on positive household stigma towards child labor. We use data from Guatemala and two instruments for measuring stigma: a child's indigenous background and household head's childhood work experience. We then adopt binomial...

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Does exchange rate policy matter for economic growth? Vietnam evidence from a co-integration approach

Pham, Thi hong hanh; Nguyen, Duc thinh - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 1, pp. 169-181

Both economic growth and exchange rate theories suggest that the exchange rate regime could have consequences for the medium-term growth of a country, directly, through its effects on the adjustment to shocks, and indirectly, through its impact on the important determinants of growth. It is,...

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Tracing the income-fertility nexus: Nonparametric Estimates for a Panel of Countries

Strulik, Holger; Sikandar, Siddiqui - In: Economics Bulletin 15 (2002) 5, pp. 1-9

We apply the a nonparametric method of kernel regression on a dataset for 109 countries to estimate the income fertility nexus in demo-economic transition. The results suggest the existence of a critical level of per capita income above which fertility decreases exponentially with rising income....

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Productivity analysis in Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation region: A multi-country translog comparative analysis, 1965-97

Bende-Nabende, Anthony; Slater, Jim; Sen, Somnath; Ford, Jim - In: Economics Bulletin 15 (2002) 2, pp. 1-9

magnitudes. Whereas TFP and capital are the dominant contributors to output growth in Japan and the tiger economies, capital and …

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New Climate of Innovation System in China - From the Perspective of Regional Transition

Lai, Wen-Hsiang - In: Economics Bulletin 28 (2007) 7, pp. 0-0

China has been one of the most favorite markets in the world for the last decade. With the economic liberalization reforms starting in 1978, ChinaÂ¡Â¦s government provided for Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in a few of provinces on the coastal area (Yao et al, 1998). SEZs in China have been...

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