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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 - 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 future at a higher rate and invest less in the human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557040
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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 future at a higher rate and invest less in the human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011556908
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The marriage gap : optimal aging and death in partnerships
Schünemann, Johannes; Strulik, Holger; Trimborn, Timo - 2017
Married people live longer than singles but how much of the longevity differential is causal and what the particular mechanisms are is not fully understood. In this paper we propose a new approach, based on counterfactual computational experiments, in order to asses how much of the marriage gap...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637331
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The marriage gap : optimal aging and death in partnerships
Schünemann, Johannes; Strulik, Holger; Trimborn, Timo - 2018
Married people live longer than singles but how much of the longevity gap is causal and what the particular mechanisms are is not fully understood. In this paper we propose a new approach, based on counterfactual computational experiments, in order to asses how much of the marriage gap can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796788
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The gender gap in mortality : how much is explained by behavior?
Schünemann, Johannes; Strulik, Holger; Trimborn, Timo - 2016
approach in order to gauge to what extent gender differences in longevity can be attributed to gender-specific preferences and … of the gender-specific preference parameters. We then perform the counterfactual experiment of endowing women with the … preferences of men. In our benchmark scenario this reduces the gender gap in life expectancy from 4.6 to 1.4 years. When we add …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011516012
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Physiological Constraints and Comparative Economic Development
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2014
It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in … particular, we develop a dynamic model of economic and physiological development in which households decide upon the number and … economic development during pre-industrial times, yet allow for an early onset of sustained growth. As a result, the theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011146226
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The Physiological Foundations of the Wealth of Nations
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2011
In the present paper we advance a theory of pre-industrial growth where body size and population size are endogenously determined. Despite the fact that parents invest in both child quantity and productivity enhancing child quality, a take-off does not occur due to a key "physiological check":...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009350497
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Physiology and Development: Why the West is Taller than the Rest
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2012
development. In support, we provide a model of long-run growth, which elucidates the links between population size, average body … size and income during development. Industrialization is shown to be accompanied by a reduction in family size and an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010769227
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Physiological constraints and comparative economic development
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2017
It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in … particular, we develop a dynamic model of economic and physiological development in which households decide upon the number and … economic development during pre-industrial times, yet allow for an early onset of sustained growth. As a result, the theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619268