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Knowledge and Growth in the Very Long Run

Strulik, Holger - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2010

This paper proposes a theory for the gradual evolution of knowl-edge diffusion and growth over the very long run. A feedback mechanismbetween capital accumulation and the ease of knowledge diffusion explains along epoch of (quasi-) stasis and an epoch of high growth linked by a grad-ual economic...

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R&D-based Growth in the Post-modern Era

Strulik, Holger; Prettner, Klaus; Prskawetz, Alexia - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2011

Conventional R&D-based growth theory suggests that productivitygrowth is positively correlated with population size or population growth,an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate R&D-basedgrowth into a unied growth setup with micro-founded fertility and...

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From Tradition to Modernity: Economic Growthin a Small World

Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2011

enforcementdeteriorates and formal institutions are needed to keep entrepreneurs in check. Agradual take-o to perpetual growth is explained by …

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Risk, Institutions and Growth:Why England and Not China?

Greif, Avner; Iyigun, Murat; Sasson, Diego - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We analyze the role of risk-sharing institutions in transitions to modern economies.Transitions requires individual …-level, idiosyncratic risk implies thatdistinct risk-sharing institutions – even those providing the same level of insurance – can leadto … model incorporating England’s andChina’s distinct pre-modern risk-sharing institutions. The model predicts a transition …

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Computer Adoption and Returns in Transition: TheoryAppendix

Orazem, Peter F.; Singh, Rajesh Kumar; Kuku, Yemisi - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2006

Across nine transition economies, it is the young, educated, English-speaking workers with the best access to local telecommunications infrastructures that work with computers. These workers earn about 25% more than do workers of comparable observable skills who do not use computers. Controlling...

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Public and Private Expenditures on Health in a GrowthModel

Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Qiao, Xue - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2005

This paper introduces endogenous longevity risk in an otherwisestandard overlapping generations model with capital. In the model, an agent mayincrease the length of her old age by incurring investments in her own health fundedfrom her wage income. Such private health investments are more...

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Identifying Social Entrepreneurs Servingthe Poor at the BoP

George, Abraham M. - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2009

gained considerable popularity. There is growing belief ininternational development and donor communities that this form of …

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The Demographic Transition:Causes and Consequences

Galor, Oded - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

therise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger forthe decline in fertility and the …

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Inequality, Human Capital Formation and theProcess of Development

Galor, Oded - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

the development process. In early stages of industrialization, as physical capitalaccumulation was a prime engine of … to save is higher. Inlater stages of development, however, as human capital has become a main engine ofgrowth, equality …

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