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Growth in Consumer Lending as a Temporary Source of Well-Being
Khromov, Michael - 2018
Recovery of consumer lending has facilitated growth in expenditures on ultimate consumption and brought about stability of households' savings amid the ongoing decline of real incomes. However, in the long-term prospect this situation will put at risk both the fi nancial stability of households...
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It's all in the stars : the Chinese zodiac and the effects of parental investments on offspring's cognitive and noncognitive skill development
Tan, Chih Ming; Wang, Xiao; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111537
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The cognitive link between geography and development : iodine dificiency and schooling attainment in Tanzania
Field, Erica Marie; Robles, Omar; Torero, Máximo - 2008
"An estimated 20 million children born each year are at risk of brain damage from in utero iodine deficiency, the only … improvements in cognitive ability attributable to the intervention by assessing whether children who benefited from IOC in utero … exhibit higher rates of grade progression at ages 10 to 14 relative to siblings and older and younger children in the district …
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Chapter 2. Macroeconomics, Aging, and Growth
Lee, R. - In: Handbook of the economics of population aging : Volume 1, (pp. 59-118). 2016
loss and the fair distribution of costs across socioeconomic classes; investing more in children to increase the quality … women with children. …
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Demographic change, economic growth, and old-age economic security : Asia and the world
Mason, Andrew; Lee, Sang-hyop; Park, Donghyun - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 39 (2022) 1, pp. 131-168
Asia is aging, although there is significant heterogeneity across subregions and economies. Population aging poses two strategic challenges for the region: sustaining economic growth and delivering old-age economic security. In this paper, we leverage the lifecycle perspective-that individuals'...
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Environmental Kuznets curves : a spatial econometric approach
Maddison, David - In: Journal of environmental economics and management : … 51 (2006) 2, pp. 218-230
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The global spatial distribution of economic activity : nature, history, and the role of trade
Henderson, J. Vernon; Squires, Tim L.; Storeygard, Adam; … - 2016
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The global spatial distribution of economic activity : nature, history, and the role of trade
Henderson, J. Vernon; Squires, Tim; Storeygard, Adam; … - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011470960
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The Global Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity : Nature, History, and the Role of Trade
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2016
We study the distribution of economic activity, as proxied by lights at night, across 250,000 grid cells of average area 560 square kilometers. We first document that nearly half of the variation can be explained by a parsimonious set of physical geography attributes. A full set of country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994896
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The Global Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity : Nature, History, and the Role of Trade
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2016
We study the distribution of economic activity, as proxied by lights at night, across 250,000 grid cells of average area 560 square kilometers. We first document that nearly half of the variation can be explained by a parsimonious set of physical geography attributes. A full set of country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456530