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R&D-based growth in the post-modern era
Strulik, Holger; Prettner, Klaus; Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, … - 2010
population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate micro-founded fertility and schooling into … future economic growth - when fertility is going to be below replacement level in virtually all fully developed countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008809945
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R&D-based growth in the post-modern era
Strulik, Holger; Prettner, Klaus; Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, … - 2011 - This version: August 2011
setup with micro-founded fertility and schooling behavior. We then show how a Beckerian child quality-quantity trade …-run prospects for future economic growth - when fertility is going to be below replacement level in virtually all developed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675344
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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 children. Accounting for these natural links we investigate whether and when there is an additional role for community norms and how the social evaluation of schooling evolves over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003612613
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School attendance and child labor : a model of collective behavior
Strulik, Holger - 2010
This paper theoretically investigates how community approval or disapproval affects school attendance and child labor and how aggregate behavior of the community feeds back towards the formation and persistence of an anti- (or pro-) schooling norm. The proposed community-model continues to take...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003946150
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School Attendance and Child Labor - A Model of Collective Behavior
Strulik, Holger - 2014
This paper investigates how community attitudes affect school attendance and child labor and how aggregate behavior of the community feeds back towards the formation and persistence of an anti- (or pro-) schooling norm. The proposed community-model continues to take aggregate and idiosyncratic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014185409
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Physiology and Development: Why the West is Taller than the Rest
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2012
We hypothesize that the timing of the fertility transition is an important determinant of comparative physiological …, economically and physiologically. Empirically, the timing of the fertility transition is strongly correlated with average body size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294428
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R&D-based growth in the post-modern era
Strulik, Holger; Prettner, Klaus; Prskawetz, Alexia - 2010
population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate micro-founded fertility and schooling into … future economic growth - when fertility is going to be below replacement level in virtually all fully developed countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352611
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Physiological constraints and comparative economic development
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2017
nutrition of their offspring. In this setting we demonstrate that relatively high metabolic costs of fertility, which may have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619268
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Birth, death, and development: a simple unified growth theory
Strulik, Holger; Weisdorf, Jacob - 2008
transitions. The model captures the intricate interplay between technological progress, mortality, fertility and economic growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265688
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How child costs and survival shaped the industrial revolution and the demographic transition: A theoretical inquiry
Strulik, Holger; Weisdorf, Jacob - 2010
transitions. The model captures the intricate interplay between technological progress, mortality, fertility and economic growth … demographic observation that fertility rates response with a delay to lower child mortality. It also identi es a number of turning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270039