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Timing of Childbearing, Family Size and Economic Growth

Iyigun, Murat - 1998

This paper incorporates the timing of childbearing into a growth model with endogenous fertility. It analyzes a model …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014101941

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011888636

Skill Composition, Fertility and Economic Growth

Day, Creina - 2014

While high fertility persists in the poorest countries and fertility declines with per capita income in developing … countries, fertility and per capita income are now positively associated across most developed countries. This paper presents a … model where a Ushaped relationship between overall fertility and per capita income reflects within country differences in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014154706

A Blessing or a Curse? The Long-Term Effect of Resource Booms on Human Capital

Mosquera, Roberto - 2019

Is natural resource abundance a blessing or a curse for a country? An important concern is the possibility that resource booms reduce human capital accumulation. These booms favor low-skill jobs, which increases the opportunity cost of education making it optimal for some cohorts to interrupt...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889342

Brain Drain, Brain Gain, and Economic Growth in China

Yi, Junjian - 2013

This paper examines the effects of both permanent and temporary emigration on human capital formation and economic growth of the source regions. To achieve this end, this paper explores the Chinese provincial panel data from 1980 to 2005. First, the fixed effects model is employed to estimate...

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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011566205

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

Klasen, Stephan; Santos Silva, Manuel - 2018

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011890622

Economic Growth With Locked-In Fertility : Under- and Over-Investment in Education

Nakagawa, Masao - 2018

This research theoretically analyzes the role of irreversible fertility decisions in economic growth in the presence of … fertility adjustment then deprives some competent children of learning opportunities. In more developed stages, by contrast …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909153

Population Genetics and Economic Growth

Zak, Paul J.; Park, Kwang Woo - 2012

This paper builds an age-structured 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014148317

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