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I explore the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Examples of … over time, own (adult) health and inputs into the production of own health, fertility, and child quality or well …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. I pay a good deal of attention to the effects of education on health …
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data from Turkey and leveraging an education reform which increased mandatory schooling by three years, we find that the …
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the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …
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We study how endowments, investments and fertility interact to produce human capital in childhood. We begin by …
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fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a …
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, starvation) and quot;preventive checksquot; (marriage, fertility). Developing economies since the Industrial Revolution, and more … recently especially Asian economies, have experienced steady income growth accompanied by sharply falling fertility and … mortality rates. We develop a dynamic model of endogenous fertility, longevity, and human capital formation within a Malthusian …
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This research explores the biocultural origins of human capital formation. It presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity and thus predisposition towards investment in child quality was conducive for long-run reproductive success within the human species. Using an extensive genealogical...
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dynamic evolution of income and fertility distributions and their interdependencies over three endogenous phases of economic … development. In our model, heterogeneous families determine fertility and children's human capital, and generations are linked via … inequalities in fertility, educational attainments, and three endogenous income inequality measures -- family-income inequality …
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village. We find that the fall in fertility preceded the rise in education by several decades. Demographic change is plausibly … fertility, mortality, human capital and intergenerational mobility, looking for structural breaks associated with the French … education occurred mostly as the result of an increase in the supply of schooling due to the Guizot Law, rather than demand side …
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Women who have first births relatively late in life earn higher wages. This paper offers an explanation of this fact based on a staple life-cycle model of human capital investment and timing of first birth. The model yields conditions (that are plausibly satisfied) under which late childbearers...
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