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Baldanzi, Annarita; Bucci, Alberto; Prettner, Klaus - 2017

We analyze the effects of children's health on human capital accumulation and on long-run economic growth. For this purpose we design an R&D-based growth model in which the stock of human capital of the next generation is determined by parental education and health investments. We show that i)...

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An economic explanation of the effect of birth order on educational achievement

Mehrbani, Vahid - In: Iranian economic review : journal of University of Tehran 22 (2018) 4, pp. 887-907

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The role of childhood health for the intergenerational transmission of human capital : evidence from administrative data

Salm, Martin; Schunk, Daniel - 2008

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Child as human resource : policies and approaches

Arun Kumar; Kumar, Arun - 2002 - 1. ed.

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The role of parental investments for cognitive and noncognitive skill formation : evidence for the first 11 years of life

Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; Reuß, Karsten - 2010

offers three important innovations. First, we use reliable measures of the child’s cognitive, mental and emotional skills as … important implications for the quality of the parent-child relationship. -- cognitive skills ; noncognitive skills ; critical …

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Self-productivity and complementarities in human development : evidence from MARS

Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2008

This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in capability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from...