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Human capital formation, life expectancy and the process of economic development

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2003 - (Updated May 2003)

This paper presents a non-Malthusian theory of long-term development We model the interplay between the process of human capital formation, technological progress, and the biological constraint of finite lifetime expectancy. All these processes are interdependent and determined endogenously. The...

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Population, Technology, and Growth : From Malthusian Stagnation to the Demographic Transition and Beyond

Galor, Oded; Weil, David N. - 2010

This paper develops a unified growth model that captures the historical evolution of population, technology, and output. It encompasses the endogenous transition between three regimes that have characterized economic development. The economy evolves from a Malthusian regime, where technological...

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Human Capital Formation, Life Expectancy and the Process of Economic Development

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2021

This paper presents a microfounded theory of long-term development. We model the interplay between economic variables, namely the process of human capital formation and technological progress, and the biological constraint of finite lifetime expectancy. All these processes affect each other and...

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Dilution effects, population growth and economic growth under human capital accumulation and endogenous technological change

Bucci, Alberto; Eraydın, Levent; Müller, Moritz - 2018

This paper answers the following two questions: 1) In the data, can we find a dilution effect of population growth also on per-capita human capital investment? If yes, 2) how can we use this fact to explain theoretically the existence of a differential impact of population change on economic...

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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 daughters and sons, and consider the intra-household bargaining power of spouses. In line with the empirical regularity for less developed countries, we assume that mothers desire...

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Birth, death, and development : a simple unified growth theory

Strulik, Holger (contributor); Weisdorf, Jacob (contributor) - 2008

relationship between child mortality and net reproduction observed in industrialized countries over the course of their demographic … transitions. The model captures the intricate interplay between technological progress, mortality, fertility and economic growth … demographic variables. -- Economic growth ; mortality ; fertility ; structural Change ; industrial revolution. …

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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

In this article, we survey the theoretical literature investigating the role of gender inequality in economic development. The vast majority of theories reviewed suggest that gender inequality is a barrier to development, particularly over the long run. Among the many plausible mechanisms...

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Gender Equity and the Escape from Poverty

Prettner, Klaus - 2014

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Endogenous growth, population growth and the repugnant conclusion

Marsiglio, Simone - 2010

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Demographic Transition Theory and its link to the historical economic growth

Nielsen, Ron W. - In: Journal of economics and political economy : JEPE 3 (2016) 1, pp. 32-49

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