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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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A bioeconomic foundation for the nutrition-based efficiency wage model
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2008
Drawing on recent research on allometric scaling and energy consumption, the present paper develops a nutrition-based efficiency wage model from first principles. The biologically micro-founded model allows us to address empirical criticism of the original nutrition-based efficiency wage model....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265684
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A bioeconomic foundation for the nutrition-based efficiency wage model
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan (contributor);  … - 2008
Drawing on recent research on allometric scaling and energy consumption, the present paper develops a nutrition-based efficiency wage model from first principles. The biologically micro-founded model allows us to address empirical criticism of the original nutrition-based efficiency wage model....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003711662
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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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A Bioeconomic Foundation for the Nutrition-Based Efficiency Wage Model
Dalgaard, Carl‐Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2011
Drawing on recent research on allometric scaling and energy consumption, the present paper develops a nutrition-based efficiency wage model from first principles. The biologically micro-founded model allows us to address empirical criticism of the original nutrition-based efficiency wage model....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014218542
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Why Not Africa? - Growth and Welfare Effects of Secure Property Rights
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2005
This paper presents the long-run equilibrium and development dynamics in the neoclassical growth model and a simple model of endogenous growth when property rights are absent. The results are compared to the outcome in a corresponding model with secure property rights. The main findings are that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064272
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Distributive Politics and Economic Growth : The Markovian Stackelberg Solution
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2005
We generalize the result of Alesina and Rodrik (1994) by showing that their static solution is also a time consistent Stackelberg solution of a differential game between the government and the median voter
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064275
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On Endogenous Growth with Physical Capital, Human Capital and Product Variety
Funke, Michael; Strulik, Holger - Institut für Makroökonomie und Wirtschaftspolitik, … - 2000
We set up an endogenous growth model with physical capital, human capital and blueprints for intermediate goods. The model can generate steady-state growth or stagnation. Along the adjustment path for a developing economy we can distinguish different stages of development. The first stage is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005764588
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A Bioeconomic Foundation for the Nutrition-based Efficiency Wage Model
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2008
Drawing on recent research on allometric scaling and energy consumption, the present paper develops a nutrition-based efficiency wage model from first principles. The biologically micro-founded model allows us to address empirical criticism of the original nutrition-based efficiency wage model....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005607005
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Desire and development
Strulik, Holger - 2016
traditional equilibrium, contraceptives are not used, fertility is high and education and growth are low. At the modern … equilibrium, contraceptives are used, fertility is low and further declining with increasing income, and education and growth are … provide more education for their children and leads to an earlier uptake of modern contraceptives and an earlier onset of the …
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