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 …

overlapping generations model which accounts for endogenous fertility and education. Parents choose the number of children they …This paper analyzes the effects of skilled migration and remittances on fertility decisions at origin. We develop an … want to raise and decide upon how many children obtain higher education. Only high skilled individuals migrate with a …

increase the levelof competitiveness. Finally we analyze Serbian agricultural education system and give some instructions for …

In this paper we focus on education as a private decision to invest in ‘human capital’ and the estimation of the rate … regression methods where the estimated return is obtained as the coefficient ona years of education variable in a log wage … effect on the earnings of an individual from participation in education. Moreover, the size of the effect seems large …

enterprises shed redundant workers. This paper focuses on the role of education in determining labor market outcomes in China … of 1999 and spring of 2000, demonstrates that education is a key determinant of labor market outcomes. Educational … attainment is an important and significant factor in the lay-off decision-the more education a worker has the better his/ her …