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Population and Economic Development
Kelley, Allen C. - 2000
Assessing the consequences of population on the pace and process of economic growth is one of the oldest themes in the literature on economics. These assessments have varied enormously over time, spanning the highly pessimistic to the outright optimistic. A systematic review of the major studies...
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Earnings Over the Life Cycle : The Mincer Earnings Function and its Applications
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2021
In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer's seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole array...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316685
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Mortality, Fertility and Persistent Income Inequality
Sarkar, Jayanta - 2007
-demographic literature emphasizes differential fertility channel, this paper investigates differential child mortality - differences in child … model in which both child mortality and fertility are endogenously determined by parental choice, this paper demonstrates … that differential child mortality and its interaction with differential fertility may generate an quot;income inequality …
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Vom Zwang zur Wahl: der Zusammenhang zwischen Wohlstand und Fertilität im Wandel der Zeit
Sax, Christoph - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003408703
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Enhancing Human Capital at Scale
Agostinelli, Francesco; Avitabile, Ciro; Bobba, Matteo - 2021
A two-year randomized evaluation shows that the effectiveness of multi-tasking men- tors on schooling outcomes crucially depends on their training. While a standard training modality in highly marginalized communities in Mexico generates null results, enhanced training yields sizable treatment...
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Education and Consanguineous Marriage
Akyol, Pelin; Mocan, Naci H. - 2021
At least one of every five marriages is consanguineous (between couples who are second cousins or closer) in the Middle East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates serious health problems for the offspring and...
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The quantity and quality of children : a semi-parametric Bayesian IV approach
Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Halla, Martin; Posekany, … - 2014
Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children builds on exogenous variation in family size due to twin births and focuses on human capital outcomes. The typical finding can be described as a statistically nonsignificant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346050
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The quantity and quality of children : a semi-parametric Bayesian IV approach
Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Halla, Martin; Posekany, … - 2014
Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children builds on exogenous variation in family size due to twin births and focuses on human capital outcomes. The typical finding can be described as a statistically nonsignificant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354544
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The quantity and quality of children : a semi-parametric Bayesian IV approach
Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Halla, Martin; Posekany, … - 2014
Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children builds on exogenous variation in family size due to twin births and focuses on human capital outcomes. The typical finding can be described as a statistically nonsignificant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257598
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The quantity and quality of children : a semi-parametric Bayesian IV approach
Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Halla, Martin; Posekany, … - 2015
Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children builds on exogenous variation in family size due to twin births and focuses on human capital outcomes. The typical finding can be described as a statistically nonsignificant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012312614