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Education spending, fertility shocks and generational consumption risk

Emerson, Patrick M.; Knabb, Shawn D. - In: The B.E. journal of theoretical economics 20 (2020) 2, pp. 1-26

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Rainfall risk and fertility : evidence from farm settlements during the American demographic transition

Grimm, Michael - 2016

Fertility is a main driver and outcome of long-term growth. Yet, fertility may not only interact with the level of … income but also with its volatility. In pre-modern economies where formal social security was largely absent, fertility … transition in the United States covering the period 1870 to 1930 and explore whether variation in fertility among American …

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Re-examining the relationship between patience, risk-taking, and human capital investment across countries

Gendre, Alexandra de; Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás - In: Journal of applied econometrics 39 (2024) 4, pp. 705-713

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Risk of investments in human capital and expected worker mobility

Shelest, Olena - In: International journal of management and economics 47 (2015), pp. 82-106

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Diversification of human capital investments in rural Ethiopia

Lindskog, Annika - In: The European journal of development research : journal … 30 (2018) 4, pp. 676-692

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Portfolio implications of job-specific human capital risk

Blanchett, David; Straehl, Philip - In: The journal of asset management 18 (2017) 1, pp. 1-15

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Do firms hedge human capital?

Brinkmann, Christina - 2024

I study how firms' labor hoarding, driven by their reliance on firm-specific human capital, affects their hedging of other business risks. Leveraging German administrative data on short-time work, combined with matched employer-employee data and firm financial information, I develop a firm-level...

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A comment on "Patience, Risk-Taking, and Human Capital Investment Across Countries" by Hanushek et al. (2021)

Gendre, Alexandra de; Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás - 2023

Hanushek et al. (2021) test how country-level measures of patience and risk-taking from the Global Preference Survey predict student performance on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) math test. They find that country-level patience positively predicts math test scores and...

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Macroeconomic effects of demographic change: the role of human capital

Geppert, Christian - 2015

Demographic change belongs to the mega-trends of the 20th and the 21st century. The ongoing aging process in major industrialized countries gives rise to the relative scarcity of raw labor and the relative abundance of physical capital. Standard macroeconomic models suggest that this depresses...

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Demographic uncertainty and generational consumption risk with endogenous human capital

Emerson, Patrick M.; Knabb, Shawn D. - 2018

This paper uses a model with overlapping generations to demonstrate that human capital accumulation can potentially attenuate factor price movements in response to birth rate shocks. Specifically, we show that if education spending per child is inversely related to the size of the generation,...

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