fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a …

private education and health systems has raised concerns about the future of an already fragmented social contract in Latin … America. In this chapter, we examine the evolution of the use of private education and private health insurance in selected … with a substantial proportion of households opting for private schools. On the other hand, opting out from public health is …

that a 1°C increase in global average temperatures would harm both the level and growth capacities of relatively poor … suffer from a slight negative short-term effect (growth effect). We claim also that the larger short-time response of these …

allocation of infrastructure across agriculture and manufacturing. We find: 1. The growth maximizing share of public capital … growth models. 3. Growth rates are decreasing in manufacturing tax rates and increasing in agricultural tax rates. -- Indian … Economic Growth ; Structural Transformation ; Unbalanced Growth ; Public Capital ; Two-Sector OLG Growth Models …

A renewed interest in explaining growth in the Caribbean countries is motivated by the somewhat slow but uneven … standard theories would predict convergence. This study (a) examines the question using methods developed in the recent growth … literature on economic growth and (b) characterizes the main elements of growth by estimating empirical models. On the basis of …