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Gender equity and the escape from poverty
Prettner, Klaus; Strulik, Holger - 2014
We set up a unified growth model with gender-specific differences in tastes for consumption, fertility, education of … developed countries, we assume that mothers desire to have no more children than fathers and to invest no less in education per … education, and sluggish economic growth towards a state of low fertility, high education, and fast economic growth if the child …
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Gender Equity and the Escape from Poverty
Prettner, Klaus - 2014
We set up a unified growth model with gender-specific differences in tastes for consumption, fertility, education of … developed countries, we assume that mothers desire to have no more children than fathers and to invest no less in education per … education, and sluggish economic growth towards a state of low fertility, high education, and fast economic growth if the child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046786
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The returns to parental health : evidence from Indonesia
Luca, Dara Lee; Bloom, David E. - 2018
This paper investigates the economic returns to parental health. To account for potential endogeneity between parental health and child outcomes, we leverage longitudinal microdata from Indonesia to estimate individual fixed effects models. Our results show that the economic returns to parental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951058
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The long-run effects of mortality decline in developing countries
Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2011
Since World War II, mortality has declined in the developing world. This paper examines the effects of this mortality decline on demographic and economic growth by a family-optimization model, in which fertility is endogenous and wealth yields utility through its status. The decline in mortality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009124149
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Endogenous Fertility, Mortality and Growth
Blackburn, Keith; Cipriani, Giam - 2010
Economic and demographic outcomes are determined jointly in a choice-theoretic model of fertility, mortality and capital accumulation. There is an endogenous population of reproductive agents who belong to dynastic families of overlapping generations connected through altruism. In addition to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014204046
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Does female empowerment promote economic development?
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - 2014
Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to fathers) increases expenditures on children. From this, should we infer that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? In this paper, we develop a non-cooperative model of household decision making to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250142
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Population dynamics and economic growth : should we adopt different frameworks for poor and rich countries?
Brezis, Elise S. - 2011
From the canonical model of Becker onward, models of population dynamics have been based on assumptions which fit the family structure of developed countries. The aim of this paper is to develop a framework that fits the family structure of poor countries. The building blocks of the model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009517875
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Childlessness and economic development : a survey
Baudin, Thomas; De la Croix, David; Gobbi, Paula E. - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012040311
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Childlessness and economic development : a survey
Baudin, Thomas; De la Croix, David; Gobbi, Paula E. - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064819
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Childlessness and economic development : a survey
Baudin, Thomas; De la Croix, David; Gobbi, Paula E. - In: Human capital and economic growth : the impact of …, (pp. 55-90). 2019
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