This paper considers an endogenous growth model with productive government spending in which overlapping generations of …, removing all inefficiencies and cycles. However, a likely outcome is that government size is too high relative to the growth …

decisions and income growth of lowered life expectancy as a result of diseases such as HIV/AIDS. We show that an increased … probability of premature death leads to less investment in human capital, and consequently slower growth. We also empirically … investments and growth for a broader set of countries. The empirical results show that HIV/AIDS has resulted in a substantial …

Description This half semester class presents an introduction to macroeconomic modeling, focusing on the theory of economic growth … equilibrium. It will use these models to shed light both on the process of economic growth at the world level and on sources of … income and growth differences across countries. …

possible. With respect to literacy, numeracy has been understudied in economic history and its inclusion in long-run growth … and its interaction with other variables in growth processes. The third manuscript employs the age heaping method as a … numbers of census enumerations conducted in the past and the Chinese calendar. Growth regressions employing age heaping as …

Parallel session 2: Population, health and growth …

, which are one of the keys to the growth process: the economy can be discontinuously innovation-oriented due to the different …

present and into the future. We utilise longitudinal administrative data on Australian individual retirement contributions to … present the first estimated effects of natural disasters on retirement savings. Using the 2010-2011 Queensland floods as a … natural experiment, we document that retirement contributions increase following the disaster. We show that individuals update …