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Humankapital, politischer Wandel und langfristige Wirtschaftsentwickung
Doepke, Matthias - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2008
Seit Mitte der achtziger Jahre hat die neue Wachstumstheorie verstärkt Aufmerksamkeit auf Humankapital als eine Quelle des Wirtschaftswachstums gelenkt. Neuere empirische Ergebnisse weisen allerdings darauf hin, dass Bildungsinvestitionen nur geringe soziale Externalitäten erzeugen und dass...
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Human Capital, Political Change, and Long-Run Economic Growth
Doepke, Matthias - 2008
Since the mid-1980s, growth theorists have increasingly focused on human capital as a source of long-run economic growth. Recently, however, a number of studies have documented that the social returns of human-capital investment are fairly small, implying that the contribution of human capital...
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Public Versus Private Education When Differential Fertility Matters
Doepke, Matthias; de la Croix, David - 2008
regime for economic growth and inequality. We find that private schooling leads to higher growth when there is little … inequality in human capital endowments across families. In contrast, when inequality is high, public education yields higher … schooling can result in ever increasing inequality. Our analysis highlights the importance of accounting for endogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014118147
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Parenting with style: altruism and paternalism in intergenerational preference transmission
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2014
parenting in countries characterized by low inequality. …
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Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to their husbands) benefits children. Does this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? We develop a series of noncooperative family bargaining models to understand what kind of...
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Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to their husbands) benefits children. Does this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? We develop a series of noncooperative family bargaining models to understand what kind of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147401
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Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to fathers) increases expenditures on children. From this, should we infer that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? In this paper, we develop a non-cooperative model of household decision making to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796634
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Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
parenting in countries characterized by low inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796725
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Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - CESifo - 2014
Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to fathers) increases expenditures on children. From this, should we infer that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? In this paper, we develop a non-cooperative model of household decision making to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747224
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Parenting with style: Altruism and paternalism in intergenerational preference transmission
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2012
We construct a theory of intergenerational preference transmission that rationalizes the choice between alternative parenting styles (related to Baumrind 1967). Parents maximize an objective function that combines Beckerian and paternalistic altruism towards children. They can affect their...
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