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This paper models household investments in young children when parents and older siblings share caregiving … not related to household structure, subsequent birth spacing, or other observable characteristics, so the presence of an …
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international migration trends and household well-being using a combination of administrative records and unique panel survey data … monetary measures of household welfare. The results further show that current migrants are more likely to send remittance … payments when household members have deteriorating life satisfaction and/or subjective reports of worsening economic conditions …
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"Empirical evidence suggests that the higher-order effects of natural disasters, which affect intangible assets, may be even more important than the material inter-industry effects. However, most existing general equilibrium models ignore higher order effects concerning human capital. Moreover,...
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Exploiting cross-birth cohort and cross-country variation from a pool of 188 household surveys from 111 countries, this …
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This paper studies economic growth in Malaysia, with the purpose of assessing the potential to attain the status and characteristics of a high-income country. Future economic growth is simulated under a business-as-usual baseline, where the growth drivers follow their historical or recent...
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This paper reviews the evidence on the importance of human capital for macro-economic development. Through the lens of a simple aggregate production function, human capital might increase output per capita by directly entering in the production process, incentivising the accumulation of...
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