public education and imperfect annuity markets, a decline in mortality affects growth through three channels. First, it …This paper examines the impact of declines in adult mortality on growth in an overlapping generations model. With … to increase the tax rate for public education initially but lower the tax rate in a later stage. Starting from a high …

analysis is to investigate the importance of health, education, and infrastructure indicators for income growth. The second …This paper uses three waves of panel surveys at the household level to study growth and poverty in Albania over the … of growth and aims to expose the obstacles households face to improve their economic situation. The main focus of the …

Measuring continuous change or growth in individual students' academic abilities over time currently uses several … investigated a single integrated model of underlying growth within an Item Response Theory framework as a potential alternative to … Expectation-Maximization algorithm under variations of several conditions, including the form of the underlying growth trajectory …

green power through 2015 that were made using historical data and three scenarios: low-growth, high-growth, and negative … results of this forecast, including uncertainties related to growth assumptions, the impacts that policy may have on the …

early growth of the Internet are expected to be informative and pertinent. …

suggests that state policy will continue to drive even faster growth over the next decade. Federal policy has also played a …

studying performance changes on a two dimensional "growth– profitability performance space". It is well established that both … growth and profitability are important dimensions of SME performance. The majority of earlier studies tend to focus on the … evolution of firm growth or profitability separately. Alternatively, they explore the impact of growth on profitability and vice …

This study investigated the longitudinal behaviour of growth rates and profitability for a large sample of Australian … firms. Similar to previous studies, growth rates were found to be much more volatile than profitability measures. Using a … regression equation with lagged profit and growth variables, we found no evidence of a consistent relationship between growth and …

Firm growth is almost universally portrayed as a good thing, and is commonly used as a measure of success. Applying … resource-based reasoning, we argue that growth is often not a sign of sound development. Specifically, we hypothesize that … secure high profitability at low growth. Empirical tests using two large, longitudinal data sets confirm that the profitable …