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Population, Technology, and Growth : From the Malthusian Regime to the Demographic Transition and Beyond
Galor, Oded - 1998
This paper develops a unified model of growth, population, and technological progress that is consistent with long-term historical evidence. The economy endogenously evolves through three phases. In the Malthusian regime, population growth is positively related to the level of income per capita....
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The Importance of Education and Skill Development for Economic Growth in the Information Era
Hulten, Charles R. - 2017
The neoclassical growth accounting model used by the BLS to sort out the contributions of the various sources of growth in the U.S. economy accords a relatively small role to education. This result seems at variance with the revolution in information technology and the emergence of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453572
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International Capital Mobility, Public Investment and Economic Growth
Clarida, Richard H. - 1993
This paper presents a neoclassical model of international capital flows, public investment, and economic growth. Because public capital is non-traded and is imperfectly substitutable for private capital, the open economy converges only gradually to the Solow steady-state notwithstanding the fact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474439
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Intergenerational Mobility Begins Before Birth
Seshadri, Ananth; Zhou, Anson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
unintended fertility, we find that intergenerational mobility is significantly lower than that in the standard model. In a policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172190
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Fathers' Multiple-Partner Fertility and Children’s Educational Outcomes
Ginther, Donna K. - 2019
We find substantial and statistically significant detrimental effects of fathers' multiple-partner fertility (MPF) on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480186
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To Stay or to Migrate? When Becker Meets Harris-Todaro
Liao, Pei-Ju - 2020
migration equilibrium framework with rural agents heterogeneous in skills and fertility preferences. We then establish and … characterize a mixed migration equilibrium where high-skilled rural agents with low fertility preferences always migrate to cities …, low-skilled with high fertility preferences always stay, and only an endogenously determined fraction of high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481070
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Education and Consanguineous Marriage
Akyol, Ş. Pelin - 2020
At least one of every five marriages is consanguineous (between couples who are second cousins or closer) in the Middle East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates serious health problems for the offspring and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482431
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Women's Education and Family Behavior : Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility
Isen, Adam - 2010
This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462926
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Parental Educational Investment and Children's Academic Risk : Estimates of the Impact of Sibship Size and Birth Order from Exogenous Variations in Fertility
Conley, Dalton - 2005
The stylized fact that individuals who come from families with more children are disadvantaged in the schooling process has been one of the most robust effects in human capital and stratification research over the last few decades. For example, Featherman and Hauser (1978: 242-243) estimate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467382
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The Effect of Teen Childbearing and Single Parenthood on Childhood Disabilities and Progress in School
Angrist, Joshua D. - 1996
be responsible for poor health and low levels of schooling among the children of young mothers. This paper uses special disability and grade repetition questions from the school enrollment supplement to the 1992 Current Population Survey to estimate the effect of maternal age and single...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473026