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The role of poverty and community norms in child labor and schooling decisions
Strulik, Holger - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008902750
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The role of poverty and community norms in child labor and schooling decisions
Strulik, Holger (contributor) - 2008
Household poverty is a powerful motive for child labor and working frequently comes at the expense of schooling for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003612613
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Myopic misery : maternal depression, child investments, and the neurobiological poverty trap
Strulik, Holger - 2016 - Revised Version: October 2016
In this paper, I explore in an overlapping generations framework, a mechanism motivating a neurobiological poverty trap …. Poverty causes stress and depression in individuals susceptible to depression. Poor and depressed individuals discount the … depression but also stress and poverty. I show that a successful one-time intervention has the power to permanently eliminate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011556908
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Gender Equity and the Escape from Poverty
Prettner, Klaus - 2014
We set up a unified growth model with gender-specific differences in tastes for consumption, fertility, education of daughters and sons, and consider the intra-household bargaining power of spouses. In line with the empirical regularity for less developed countries, we assume that mothers desire...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046786
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Multidimensional perspectives on poverty
Pasha, Atika - 2016
Messung menschlicher Armut und Entwicklung gibt es seit den späten 70er Jahren zunehmendes Interesse an der Ökonomie des …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012321273
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Menstruation hygiene management and work attendance in a developing country
Krenz, Astrid; Strulik, Holger - 2019
Women in developing countries face challenges in terms of managing their menstrual hygiene. Oftentimes they do not possess the right means nor materials nor have access to the right facilities. Using a newly released dataset for Burkina Faso and propensity score matching, we provide for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951248
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Myopic misery : maternal depression, child investments, and the neurobiological poverty trap
Strulik, Holger - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 23 (2019) 2, pp. 522-534
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126604
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The great divergence : a network approach
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2015
We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge exchange. Knowledge in any country depends on the human capital of the countries it exchanges knowledge with. The diffusion of knowledge throughout the world explains a period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397182
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From worship to worldly pleasures : secularization and long-run economic growth
Strulik, Holger - 2012 - This version: May 2012
In medieval times, most people identified with religious values and aggregate income and productivity grew at glacier speed. In the 20th century, religion played a much lesser role in daily life and income and productivity grew at high and unprecedented rates. The present paper develops a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357676
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Preferences, income, and life satisfaction : an equivalence result
Strulik, Holger - 2013
In this paper I investigate the nexus between life time utility (life satisfaction) and income predicted by the standard model of endogenous economic growth under different behavioral assumptions. The solution rationalizes why the empirical association between income and life satisfaction is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784194