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Indi's stagnating manufacturing sector has become a serious cause of concern for Indian policy makers. Several reasons … importance of the manufacturing sector and its potential to contribute to growth and employment, corrective measures must be … high value manufacturing sector and provides recommendations on measures to achieve this objective. In the absence of …
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I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a lowfertility indigenous population result in …
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educational expenditures and decreases fertility among more affluent whites whose children flee. In contrast, among less …
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multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility …
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This article analyzes the relationship between abortion and female education. It provides new empirical evidence from sub-Saharan Africa to show that more liberal abortion policies are associated with a higher female secondary school enrollment. It is assumed in the model that easier access to...
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of less prosperous ethnic minorities raises fertility among the unskilled minority recipients, lowers fertility among 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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This research examines variations in the diffusion of agriculture across countries and archaeological sites. The theory … the adoption of agriculture. Consistent with the proposed hypothesis, the empirical investigation demonstrates that … agriculture. Farming diffused earlier across regions characterized by intermediate levels of climatic fluctuations, with those …
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This comment explains why the findings presented in Beaudry and Lucke (2009) are misleading.
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The Chicago Fed dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model is used for policy analysis and forecasting at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. This article describes its specification and estimation, its dynamic characteristics and how it is used to forecast the US economy. In many...
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