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Violence and human capital investments
Koppensteiner, Martin; Menezes, Lívia - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098618
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Violence and human capital investments
Koppensteiner, Martin; Menezes, Lvia - 2019
In this paper, we investigate the effect of student exposure to homicides on their educational performance and human … exposure to homicides in the public way on these outcomes. Using within-school and within-corridor estimates, we show that … and Portuguese language and increases dropout rates. We construct measures of student exposure to homicides on their way …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993970
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Optimal fertility under age-dependent labor productivity
Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580719
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Demographic change in models of endogenous economic growth: A survey
Prettner, Klaus; Prskawetz, Alexia - 2010
The purpose of this article is to identify the role of population size, population growth and population ageing in models of endogenous economic growth. While in exogenous growth models demographic variables are linked to economic prosperity mainly via the population size, the structure of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352563
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Ageing municipalities, gerontocracy and fiscal competition
Montén, Anna; Thum, Marcel - 2008
We develop a simple model of fiscal competition among ageing municipalities. When ageing advances, gerontocracies and social planners gradually substitute publicly provided goods aimed at the mobile young population for publicly provided goods for the elderly. This substitution process does not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264494
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Demographic Change and the Labour Share of Income
Schmidt, Torsten; Vosen, Simeon - 2010
Despite similar levels of per capita income, education, and technology the development of labour shares in OECD countries has displayed different patterns since 1960. The paper examines the role of demography in this regard. Employing an overlapping generations model we first examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269987
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Demographic change and R&D-based economic growth: Reconciling theory and evidence
Prettner, Klaus; Trimborn, Timo - 2012
In recent decades, most industrialized countries experienced declining population growth rates caused by declining fertility and associated with rising life expectancy. We analyze the effect of continuing demographic change on medium- and long-run economic growth by setting forth an R&D-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311685
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Declining fertility and economic well-being: Do education and health ride to the rescue?
Prettner, Klaus; Bloom, David E.; Strulik, Holger - 2012
It is widely argued that declining fertility slows the pace of economic growth in industrialized countries through its negative effect on labor supply. There are, however, theoretical arguments suggesting that the effect of falling fertility on effective labor supply can be offset by associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282140
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Aging and immigration policy in a representative democracy
Calahorrano, Lena - 2010
This paper analyzes how population aging affects immigration policy in rich industrialized countries. It sets up a two-period model of a representative democracy with two overlapping generations. The government's preferred immigration rate increases with the share of retirees in the population....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286356
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Demographic change in models of endogenous economic growth : a survey
Prettner, Klaus; Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Alexia - 2010
The purpose of this article is to identify the role of population size, population growth and population ageing in models of endogenous economic growth. While in exogenous growth models demographic variables are linked to economic prosperity mainly via the population size, the structure of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008809941