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Entitled to property : how breaking the gender barrier improves child health in India

Hossain, Shahadat Md.; Nikolov, Plamen - 2023

Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial determinant of human capital and economic standing throughout adulthood. We examine the effects of a policy shift, the Hindu Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted...

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Social capital, human capital and fertility

Coppier, Raffaella; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - 2018

We develop an overlapping generations model to study how the interplay between social and human capital affects fertility. In a framework where families face a trade-off between the quantity and quality of children, we incorporate the assumption that social capital plays a key role in the...

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Sleeping

Laufey Asgeirsdottir, Tinna - 2008

Sleep is a source of energy. This energy is available in limited quantity and individuals must decide when it should be renewed and when it should be consumed. The economics of sleeping and the economics of resource extraction are one and the same. More specifically, utility maximization with...

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Parental Human Capital Investment Responses to Children’s Disability

Terskaya, Anastasia - 2020

One of the potential explanations for the well-documented school participation deficitassociated with disabilities is that parents underinvest in the education of disabled children.Alternatively, inequality averse parents may reduce the education gap associatedwith disabilities. This paper...

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Optimal policy towards families with different amounts of social capital, in the presence of asymmetric information and stochastic fertility

Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - 2006

We examine the effects of differences in social capital on first and second best transfers to families with children, in an asymmetric information context where the number of births, and the future earning capacity of each child that is born, are random variables. The probability that a couple...

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Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital and Economic Growth : A Productive Consumption Approach

Dinda, Soumyananda - 2013

Social capital is a broad term containing the social networks and norms that generate shared understandings, trust and …

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Social Networks Over the Lifecycle, and the Relationship between Human Capital and Social Capital

Munasib, Abdul - 2009

While an extensive literature studies social capital outcomes, the evolution process of social capital remains largely ignored. This paper presents a dynamic model of lifetime decision making of the individual's social capital accumulation. Structural parameters of the model - estimated using...

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Does Human Capital Generate Social and Institutional Capital? Exploring Evidence from South African Time Series Data

Fedderke, Johannes W. - 2014

This paper presents an analysis of the interaction of human capital investment and the development of social and political institutions. We find that human capital mattersmdash;for growth through its quality dimension; for distributional conflict by raising political aspirations. But human...

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A multidimensional view of intellectual capital : the impact on innovation performance

Ali, Mostafa A.; Hussin, Nazimah; Haddad, Hossam; … - In: Journal of open innovation : technology, market, and … 7 (2021) 4, pp. 1-25

antecedent factors such as culture and trust on intellectual capital components was analysed. In addition, a correlation among … AMOS v24 software. The results revealed a significant impact of culture and trust (antecedent factors) on various …

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Does trust matter for economic growth and human development? : empirical evidence from a panel of countries

Pervaiz, Zahid; Chaudhary, Amatul R. - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 9 (2015) 3, pp. 916-927

Trust among individuals of a society is an important dimension of social capital and may have different economic and … development implications. The present study is an attempt to investigate the relationship of trust with economic growth and human … development. It is unique in at least two different aspects. Firstly, it has used an index for quantifying trust which may be more …

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