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A Dynamic Model of Female Labor Force Participation Rate and Human Capital Investment
Szulga, Radek - In: Journal of Economic Development 39 (2014) 3, pp. 81-114
relative education levels of men and women, the education levels of women in the labor force and outside of it, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010934857
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Childcare and Commitment within Households
GOBBI, Paula - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013
Parental time with children increases with the education of both the mother and the father. As the education of parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691322
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Production Structure, Household Time Allocation, and Fertility
Kimura, Masako; Yasui, Daishin - Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University - 2009
This paper develops an overlapping generations model that incorporates two-sector (market and non-market) production, sexual difference, and fertility choice. Our model could explain the joint evolution of production structure, household time allocation, and fertility broadly observed in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008496085
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Were Mankiw, Romer, and Weil Right? A reconciliation of the Micro and Macro Effects of Schooling on Income.
Breton, Theodore - UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT - 2011
The marginal product of human capital in Mankiw, Romer, and Weil´s [1992] augmented Solow model measures the direct and two external effects of human capital created from schooling on national income. If this model is valid, its estimates of the share of this marginal product accruing to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762805
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Schooling and National Income: How Large Are the Externalities? Revised Estimates
Breton, Theodore - UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT - 2010
This article presents revised estimates of the external rates of return on investment in schooling provided in Schooling and National Income: How Large Are the Externalities?" The analysis is based on data for the same set of countries, but it incorporates methodological improvements that yield...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762830
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Can Institutions or Education Explain World Poverty? An Augmented Solow Model Provides Some Insights
Breton, Theodore R. - UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT - 2010
This article presents revised estimates of the external rates of return on investment in schooling provided in “Schooling and National Income: How Large Are the Externalities?” The analysis is based on data for the same set of countries, but it incorporates methodological improvements that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010827912
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Schooling and National Income: How Large Are the Externalities? Corrected Estimates
Breton, Theodore R. - UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT - 2010
This article presents revised estimates of the external rates of return on investment in schooling provided in “Schooling and National Income: How Large Are the Externalities?” The analysis is based on data for the same set of countries, but it incorporates methodological improvements that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010786387
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Schooling and National Income: How Large Are the Externalities?
Breton, Theodore R. - UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT - 2007
This paper uses a new data set for cumulative national investment in formal schooling and a newinstrument for schooling to estimate the national return on investment in 61 countries. These estimates are combined with data on the private rate of return on investment in schooling to estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010786388
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Education Policies and Structural Transformation
Monge-Naranjo, Alexander; Cavalcanti Ferreira, Pedro; … - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2014
This article studies the impact of education and fertility in structural transformation and growth. In the model there … dimensions, it may or may not allow child labor and it subsidizes education expenditures. The model is calibrated to South Korea … important in explaining its stagnation (growth) after 1980. We also analyze how different government policies towards education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951614
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Women's Empowerment in South Asia and Southeast Asia: A Comparative Analysis
Chaudhuri, Sanjukta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
demonstrate that Philippines and Vietnam, both in South East Asia, have the highest education level, highest rates of economic … education; Pakistan and Bangladesh have the lowest economic participation rates and highest fertility rates; India has the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476390