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Social Capital, Government Expenditures and Growth
Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M. - 2018
This paper shows that social capital increases economic growth by raising government investment in human capital. We present a model of stochastic endogenous growth with imperfect political agency. Only some people correctly anticipate the future returns to current spending on public education....
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Government Expenditure on the Public Education System
Fu, Chao; Ishimaru, Shoya; Kennan, John - 2022
We investigate equilibrium impacts of federal policies such as free-college proposals, taking into account that human capital production is cumulative and that state governments have resource constraints. In the model, a state government cares about household welfare and aggregate educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324719
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Medicaid Crowd-Out of Private Long-Term Care Insurance Demand : Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey
Brown, Jeffrey R. - 2010
This paper provides empirical evidence of Medicaid crowd out of demand for private long-term care insurance. Using data on the near- and young-elderly in the Health and Retirement Survey, our central estimate suggests that a $10,000 decrease in the level of assets an individual can keep while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760636
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Affirmative Action in Education : Evidence from Engineering College Admissions in India
Bertrand, Marianne - 2010
in India for quot;lower-castequot; groups. We find that it successfully targets the financially disadvantaged: the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759394
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China and India as Suppliers of Affordable Medicines to Developing Countries
Hafner, Tamara - 2014
pharmaceutical trade data from 1996 to 2005, we examine the role of China and India as suppliers of medicines to other middle- and … medicines from high- income countries. We find that imports of antibiotics and unspecified medicaments from India and China … significantly depress the average price of these commodities imported from high-income trading partners, suggesting that India and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067622
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Does Increased Access Increase Equality? Gender and Child Health Investments in India
Oster, Emily F. - 2007
inequality in those health investments in India. A simple theory of gender-biased parental investment suggests that gender … relationship between gender balance in vaccinations and the availability of quot;Health Campsquot; in India. I find support for a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778141
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Mortality Risks, Health Endowments, and Parental Investments in Infancy : Evidence from Rural India
Datar, Ashlesha - 2010
this hypothesis using nationally representative data from rural India. We use birth size as a measure of initial health …
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The Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Disease in China and India : Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons
Bloom, David E. - 2013
This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the … five main NCDs will total USD 27.8 trillion for China and USD 6.2 trillion for India (in 2010 USD). For both countries, the … that the costs are much larger in China than in India mainly because of China's higher income and older population. Rough …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077651
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Can Electronic Procurement Improve Infrastructure Provision? Evidence from Public Works in India and Indonesia
Lewis-Faupel, Sean - 2015
this paper we develop a unique micro-dataset on public works procurement from two fast-growing economies, India and … improvements. In India, where we observe an independent measure of construction quality, e-procurement improves the average road …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033032
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The Effect of Interventions to Reduce Fertility on Economic Growth
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2011
We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous reductions in fertility on output per capita. Our simulation model allows for effects that run through schooling, the size and age structure of the population, capital accumulation, parental time input into child-rearing, and crowding of fixed...
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