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Africa's Prospects for Enjoying a Demographic Dividend

Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2016

We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa remain high, they have started to decline. According to UN projections, they will fall further in the coming decades such that by the mid-21st century the ratio of the...

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Africa's Prospects for Enjoying a Demographic Dividend

Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2016

We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa remain high, they have started to decline. According to United Nations projections, they will fall further in the coming decades such that by the mid-21st century the ratio of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625358

Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend

Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2016

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Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend

Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2016

We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa remain high, they have started to decline. According to United Nations projections, they will fall further in the coming decades such that by the mid-21st century the ratio of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532935

Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend

Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - In: Journal of demographic economics : JODE 83 (2017) 1, pp. 62-76

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Children s health, human capital accumulation, and R&D-based economic growth

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

parental education and health investments. We show that i) there is a complementarity between education and health: if parents …We analyze the effects of children's health on human capital accumulation and on long-run economic growth. For this … want to have better educated children, they also raise health investments and vice versa; ii) parental health investments …

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Children's health, human capital accumulation, and R&D-based economic growth

Baldanzi, Annarita; Bucci, Alberto; Prettner, Klaus - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 25 (2021) 3, pp. 651-668

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Public provision of healthcare and basic science : what are the effects on economic growth and welfare?

Parui, Pintu; Prettner, Klaus - 2024

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The scientific revolution and its role in the transition to sustained economic growth

Lehmann-Hasemeyer, Sibylle H.; Prettner, Klaus; … - 2020

and a takeoff of educational investments and human capital accumulation. In regions where scientific inquiry is severely …

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Health and economic growth

Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2018

Economists increasingly accept that social norms have powerful effects on human behavior and outcomes. In recent history, one norm widely adhered to in most developed nations has been for men to be the primary breadwinner within mixed-gender households. As women have entered the labor market in...

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