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Long-Term Impacts of Growth and Development Monitoring: Evidence from Routine Health Examinations in Early Childhood

Liang, Yinhe; Peng, Xiaobo; Sun, Meiping Aggie - 2024

This paper examines the long-term impacts of growth and development monitoring in early childhood. For this purpose, we evaluate a pediatric healthcare program, the Systematic Management of Children (SMC), which offers growth and development monitoring through routine health checkups for all...

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Gender inequality as a barrier to economic growth : a review of the theoretical literature

Klasen, Stephan; Santos Silva, Manuel - 2018 - This version: August 19, 2018

economy, the role of women for fertility decisions and human capital investments is particularly important. Yet, we believe …

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Population genetics and economic growth

Zak, Paul J.; Park, Kwang Woo - 2000 - This version June 3, 2000

This paper builds an age-structural model of human population genetics in which agents are endowed with a high-dimensional genome that determines their cognitive and physical characteristics. Young adults optimally search for a marriage partner, work for firms, consume goods, save for old age...

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The past and future of knowledge-based growth

Strulik, Holger; Prettner, Klaus; Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, … - 2012

-founded fertility and schooling behavior. The model explains the historical emergence of R&D-based growth and the subsequent emergence … growth - when fertility is going to be below replacement level in virtually all developed countries - are much better than … suggested by conventional R&D-based growth theories. -- R&D ; declining population ; fertility ; schooling ; human capital. …

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Children s health, human capital accumulation, and R&D-based economic growth

Baldanzi, Annarita; Bucci, Alberto; Prettner, Klaus - 2017

We analyze the effects of children's health on human capital accumulation and on long-run economic growth. For this purpose we design an R&D-based growth model in which the stock of human capital of the next generation is determined by parental education and health investments. We show that i)...

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Children's health, human capital accumulation, and R&D-based economic growth

Baldanzi, Annarita; Bucci, Alberto; Prettner, Klaus - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 25 (2021) 3, pp. 651-668

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Money counts, but so does timing : public investment and adult competencies

Cathles, Alison; Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2017

Numeracy skills of adults within and across 12 different countries in 2011 are strongly associated with the accumulated public investments in education received by these adults during their schooling. This paper confirms existing evidence that the timing of educational investments is important,...

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Human capital spending, inequality, and growth in middle-income Asia

Abrigo, Michael Ralph M.; Lee, Sang-hyop; Park, Donghyun - 2017

Asia's rapid population aging fortifies the case for strengthening human capital investments. Further, the experience of the newly industrialized economies suggests that human capital investments will be a vital ingredient of the transition from middle income to high income. Those investments...

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Human capital as engine of growth : the role of knowledge transfers in promoting balanced growth within and across countries

Ehrlich, Isaac; Pei, Yun - 2020

; the relation between income growth and income and fertility distributions; and the relevance of human capital in …, knowledge spillover effects play a key role. The analysis offers new insights for understanding the decline in fertility below … population replacement rate in many developed countries; the evolution of income and fertility distributions across developing …

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Corruption, fertility, and human capital

Varvarigos, Dimitrios; Arsenis, Panagiotis - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 109 (2015), pp. 145-162

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