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economic development and the dynamics of inequality withinand across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit … evolved non-monotonicallyin the course of human history. In early stages of development, risk-tolerant, growthpromoting traits … process of economic development. Inmature stages of development, however, risk-averse traits gained an evolutionary advantage …
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Population forecasts are crucial for many social, political and economic decisions. Officialpopulation projections rely in general on deterministic models which use different scenariosfor future vital rates to indicate uncertainty. However, this technique shows substantialweak points such as...
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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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Unlike in many other transition countries, where the gender pay gap has remained stable while female employment rates have reduced, in the case of Belarus women activity rate has been practically unchanged despite an increase in the gender pay gap. This paper investigates why this is the case by...
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entire process of instructed development than to fullydeveloped organisms.[...] …
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their children that they are interested intheir development, and this in turn signals to the child that their future is … Development Study; a longitudinal study of children born inBritain in 1958. Results on a sample of children raised in two parent … involvement and the gender ofthe parent. Father interest in education has the strongest impact on earlierpoverty, especially at …
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This paper evaluates the impact of three major expansions in leave coverage in Germany on the long-run education and … period is more beneficial to child development than an expansion of an already long leave period[...] …
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We study the effects of random assignment to coeducational andsingle-sex classes on the academic performance of female highschool students. Our estimation results show that single-sexschooling improves the performance of female students inmathematics. This positive effect increases if the...
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compare patterns of segregation across nineethnic groups, and across Local Education Authorities in England. Looking atboth …
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, education, roads, industrial power consumption and bank depositsas infrastructure components explaining cross-state variation in … in-creased. The observed polarisation is explained by the disparate distributionof infrastructure, in particular, that of … education, irrigation and literacy inthe formation of the lower convergence club. Parametric analysis establishesirrigation …
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