Health, like schooling, is a form of human capital and can be expected to be positively related to labor productivity … and labor supply. The production of good health and labor productivity, however, sometimes competes with an individual …'s lifestyle, e.g., binge drinking. In this study, an individual's health has three dimensions: current health status, binge …

economic development through its impact on productivity, fertility and human capital investment.In the second chapter of this … countries, and individuals consume innovated health goods to avoid the cost (labor time lost) of getting a disease. Southern … welfare is shown to increase with the imposition of IPR protection when health needs in the South differ sufficiently from …

In this dissertation, I examine individual decisions in occupational choice, labor supply, and health care utilization … fertility and relative wages using a panel estimation method. I also compare the behavioral changes in the labor force … in entry wages may be attributed to post wage differentials. I examine individuals?? choice of health insurance plan and …

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. …