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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 …
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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 …
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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...
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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...
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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
nutrition of their offspring. In this setting we demonstrate that relatively high metabolic costs of fertility, which may have …
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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/10010310999
-founded fertility and schooling behavior. The model explains the historical emergence of R&D-based growth and the subsequent emergence … growth - when fertility is going to be below replacement level in virtually all developed countries - are much better than …
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transitions. The model captures the intricate interplay between technological progress, mortality, fertility and economic growth …
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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