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Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016

This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...

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Health and Economic Growth: Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence

Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Kotschy, Rainer; … - 2018

Micro-based and macro-based approaches have been used to assess the effects of health on economic growth. Micro-based approaches aggregate the return on individual health from Mincerian wage regressions to derive the macroeconomic effects of population health. Macro-based approaches estimate a...

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Risky human capital investment, income distribution, and macroeconomic dynamics

Grossmann, Volker - 2003

This paper analyzes the interaction between intergenerational wealth transmission, human capital investments under uninsurable labor income risk, and economic growth in a small open overlapping-generations economy with heterogeneous agents. It demonstrates how the role of the personal income...

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Openness and Human Capital as Sources of Productivity Growth : An Empirical Investigation from the MENA Countries

Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud - 2005

This paper investigates the impact of openness to trade and higher levels of human capital on the economies of some MENA countries. To answer the question: whether either human capital or openness can be shown to cause productivity, we use panel data on 16 countries spanning the 1965 -2000...

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Demographic Determinants of Savings : Estimating and Interpreting the Aggregate Association in Asia

Schultz, T. Paul - 2005

Life cycle savings is proposed as one explanation for much of the increase in savings and economic growth in Asia. The association between the age composition of a nation?s population and its savings rate, observed within 16 Asian countries from 1952 to 1992, is reestimated here to be less than...

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International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more...

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Life expectancy and the environment

Mariani, Fabio; Pérez-Barahona, Agustín; Raffin, Natacha - 2009

We present an OLG model in which life expectancy and environmental quality dynamics are jointly determined. Agents may invest in environmental care, depending on how much they expect to live. In turn, environmental conditions affect life expectancy. As a result, our model produces a positive...

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Dynamic ethnic fractionalization and economic growth in the transition economies from 1989 to 2007

Campos, Nauro F.; Saleh, Ahmad; Kuzeyev, Vitaliy S. - 2009

In their survey of the literature on ethnic fractionalization and economic performance, Alesina and La Ferrara (JEL 2005) identify two main directions for future research. One is to improve the measurement of diversity and the other to treat diversity as an endogenous variable. This paper tries...

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Solow or Lucas? Testing speed of convergence on a panel of OECD countries

Arnold, Jens; Bassanini, Andrea; Scarpetta, Stefano - 2010

them as regards the relationship between factor shares and speed of convergence. Using cross-country/timeseries data, we … specify our growth regression without imposing cross-country homogeneity restrictions on the speed of convergence and short …-run parameters. Indeed, both theoretical models imply that the speed of convergence to the steady state differs across countries due …

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Misallocation and Inequality

Guner, Nezih; Ruggieri, Alessandro - 2022

For a large set of countries, we document how the labor earnings inequality varies with GDP per capita. As countries get richer, the mean-to-median ratio and the Gini coefficient decline. Yet, this decline masks divergent patterns: while inequality at the top of the earnings distribution falls,...

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