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development regimes and it illustrates wider role of education in tackling possible development traps. …
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This paper develops a theory in which households prepare for future education by adjusting the number of children they …
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corruption. The driving force in the equilibrium selection process is the education effort exerted by parents which depends on … interventions which via parents' efforts have long-lasting effects on corruption and show the success of intensive education …
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participation. We build an overlapping generations life cycle model with education, labor supply, and consumption/saving decisions …. Cognitive and non-cognitive skills of children depend on the cognitive skills and education of parents, and affect education … be used to fund education, supplementing grants, loans and the labor supply of the children themselves during college …
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We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital …
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We study the efficiency and distributional consequences of establishing and abolishing the draft in a dynamic model with overlapping generations, taking into account endogenous human capital formation as well as government budget constraints. The introduction of the draft initially benefits the...
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Many authors have recently suggested that the heterogeneity in the quality of early education may be one of the key …-1977 significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. The reform shifted the tracking … age in secondary education from age 10 to 16 and imposed a uniform academic curriculum on entire cohorts until the end of …
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This paper studies second best policies for education, saving, and labour in an OLG model in which endogenous growth … equilibria are inefficient. The inefficiency is exacerbated if selfish individuals externalize the positive effect of education … on descendents' productivity. It is shown to be second best to subsidize education even relative to the first best if the …
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This paper presents a theoretical model to analyze the effects of technology change on growth rates of income and human capital in the uncertain environments of technology. The uncertainty comes from two sources; the possibility of a technology advance and the characteristics of new...
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increasing education and declining labor supply (of cohorts born 1850-1950) as an optimal response to increasing active life …
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