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Human Capital is the Key to Growth - Success Stories and Policies for 2020

Bergheim, Stefan - 2005

Human capital is the most important factor of production in today's economies - and education is an investment that generates higher incomes in future. The growth stars of the coming years identified in our introductory study base their success on major gains in human capital. The success...

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Elite Education, Mass Education, and the Transition to Modern Growth

Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - 2014

cognitive ability. Compulsory schooling can move society from elite education to mass education. An interaction between …

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Intellectual capital as a driver of economic development

Jednak, Sandra; Dmitrović, Veljko; Damnjanović, Vesna - In: Economic review : journal of economics & business 15 (2017) 2, pp. 77-84

There are different factors for obtaining economic development. In contemporary economics, knowledge and intellectual capital have become necessary for achieving economic development. Management and development of intellectual capital bring benefits and advance the economy. The main aim of the...

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The Human Capital Constraint : Of Increasing Returns, Education Choice and Coordination Failure

Aiyar, Shekhar S. - 2002

their impact on schooling and productivity. In particular, it is found that subsidies to basic education are likely to be …

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Lifestyles of the rich and polygynous in Cote d’Ivoire

Gould, Eric D.; Moav, Omer; Simhon, Avi - In: Economics Letters 115 (2012) 3, pp. 404-407

This paper investigates whether the sources of income, not just the levels, determine whether an individual is monogamous. Our results support the idea that polygyny stunts development by allowing wealthy men to acquire wives rather than investing in child quality.

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The rise of monogamy

Citci, Sadettin Haluk - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 5 (2014) 4, pp. 377-397

Why has polygyny, marriage of a man to multiple women, common in most societies throughout history, almost disappeared in modern industrialized countries? Do women play a role in its disappearance? A simple theoretical model suggests that at the later stage of the transition from polygyny to...

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The rise of monogamy

Çitçi, Sadettin Haluk - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 5 (2014) 4, pp. 377-397

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Does education matter for economic growth?

Delgado, Michael S.; Henderson, Daniel J.; Parmeter, … - 2012

Empirical growth regressions typically include mean years of schooling as a proxy for human capital. However, empirical … research often finds that the sign and significance of schooling depends on the sample of observations or the specification of … a rigorous and systematic search for significance of mean years of schooling by examining five of the most comprehensive …

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Endogenous Versus Exogenous Growth Facing a Fertility Shock

Medeiros, João - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2000

This paper simulates the impact of a permanent fertility shock on economic growth, using endogenous versus exogenous … decline in fertility on growth when compared with an exogenous growth model. This result stems from the rise in education …

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Refugee resettlement, redistribution and growth

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2018

growth model with endogenous fertility. I show how refugee resettlement from a more advanced and wealthier economy to a less …

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