economic development through its impact on productivity, fertility and human capital investment.In the second chapter of this … counteracting disease).In the third chapter of this dissertation, I model the impact of child disease burden on fertility and human … capital investment. The fertility response to a decline in child mortality depends on the morbidity effect of the disease, the …

fertility and relative wages using a panel estimation method. I also compare the behavioral changes in the labor force …

Over the demographic transition, declining fertility leads to rising support ratios and consumption during the first … fertility falls to preserve the initial gains? Using a new cross-national data set, we estimate that a constant share of life …. Combining these, we simulate the effect of fertility variations over an exogenous demographic transition, including varying …

How do high and low skilled migration affect fertility and human capital in migrants' origin countries? This question … drain induces parents to have more high and less low educated children. Under certain conditions fertility may either rise … found that increased high skilled emigration reduces fertility and fosters human capital accumulation, while low skilled …

This paper analyzes the effects of skilled migration and remittances on fertility decisions at origin. We develop an … overlapping generations model which accounts for endogenous fertility and education. Parents choose the number of children they … that, at origin, increased high skilled emigration reduces fertility and fosters human capital accumulation. …

rates in broad occupational categories in Pakistan. The method used controls for average gender differences in these …

Humankapital in neu gegründeten Unternehmen. Die Papiere sind alle empirisch, stehen aber in enger Beziehung zu zwei theoretischen …

Zusammenhang zwischen Humankapital und Innovationen zusätzlich auf Mikroebene nachzugehen.Dies realisiert der Autor im letzten …

junger Unternehmen haben. Insbesondere das Humankapital der Gründer scheint maßgeblich sowohl das Überleben, als auch die …