Showing 1 - 10 of 49
traditional equilibrium, contraceptives are not used, fertility is high and education and growth are low. At the modern … equilibrium, contraceptives are used, fertility is low and further declining with increasing income, and education and growth are … provide more education for their children and leads to an earlier uptake of modern contraceptives and an earlier onset of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436754
It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the "latitude gradient"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011774936
It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the “latitude gradient”...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011617886
It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the 'latitude gradient'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014501636
increasing education and declining labor supply (of cohorts born 1850-1950) as an optimal response to increasing active life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311688
respond to a longer stay in a healthy state of high productivity by obtaining more education and supplying less labor. Better … health increases productivity and amplifies the return on education. The health accelerator allows workers to finance … for leisure is sufficiently strong or the return on education is sufficiently large. We calibrate an extended version of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311781
firms. In so doing we integrate a micro-founded education and fertility decision of households into a model of international … in the education level of its population, ii) the export share of a country decreases in the birth rate of its population …, iii) the average profitability of firms increases in the education level of a country, iv) the average profitability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010314667
A core mechanism of unified growth theory is that accelerating technological progress induces mass education and … gender wage gap, we establish (1) a significant impact of technological progress on education (positive) and fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014537005
calibrate the model to US data and show that the historical evolution of increasing education and declining labor supply can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294422
We generalize a trade model with firm-specific heterogeneity and R&D-based growth to allow for an endogenous education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332896