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Trade and the great divergence: The family connection
Galor, Oded; Mountford, Andrew - 2006
towards investment in education and growth in output per capita, a significant portion of the gains from trade in non …-industrial nations was channeled towards population growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318893
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Theoretische Grundlagen demokratischer Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftspolitik : der Ansatz von Douglass North
Pies, Ingo - 2008
Douglass North gehört zu den führenden Sozialwissenschaftlern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er wurde für seine bahnbrechenden Leistungen auf dem Gebiet der ökonomischen Geschichtstheorie mit dem Nobelpreis ausgezeichnet. Dieser Aufsatz rekonstruiert (a) seine kliometrische Diagnose der Moderne, (b)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786038
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Lowering barriers to remote education : experimental impacts on parental responses and learning
Beam, Emily A.; Mukherjee, Priya; Navarro-Sola, Laia - 2022
We conduct a randomized controlled trial with households of secondary school students in Bangladesh to investigate how parents adjust their investments in response to three educational interventions: an informational campaign about an educational phone application, an internet data subsidy, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412757
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Accumulation of education and regional income growth : limited human capital effects in Norway
Rattsø, Jørn; Stokke, Hildegunn Ekroll - 2011 - Date: February 1, 2011
income growth. New economic geography predicts income divergence across regions. We investigate the dynamic process of … accumulating tertiary education and regional income growth in Norway during the past four decades. The expansion of smart cities … education has not been important for the pattern of income growth. Catching up from low income is not driven by education and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548140
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Directed Technology Adoption, Human Capital Formation and World Income Distribution
Schiopu, Ioana C. - 2014
This paper investigates the effects of skill bias technical change at the frontier on the evolution of output and human capital in the adopting countries. The framework introduces a novel feature by connecting the direction of technology adoption to a sequential process of skill accumulation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069814
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Trading Population for Productivity : Theory and Evidence
Galor, Oded; Mountford, Andrew - 2008
gains from trade have been directed towards investment in education and growth in income per capita, whereas a significant … portion of these gains in less developed economies have been channeled towards population growth. Cross-country regressions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220825
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Trade and the Great Divergence : The Family Connection
Galor, Oded; Mountford, Andrew - 2006
towards investment in education and growth in output per capita, a significant portion of the gains from trade in non …-industrial nations was channeled towards population growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014060187
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Reconsidering The Impact of Environment on Long-Run Growth When Pollution Influences Health and Agents Have Finite-Lifetime
Pautrel, Xavier - 2006
that the influence of environment on optimal growth in the long-run may be explained by the detrimental effect of pollution … on life expectancy. It also shows that, in such a case, greener preferences are growth- and welfare-improving even if the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312553
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Capital-skill complementarity and the emergence of labor emancipation
Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Galor, Oded; … - 2017
This paper advances a novel hypothesis regarding the historical roots of labor emancipation. It argues that the decline of coercive labor institutions in the industrial phase of development has been an inevitable by-product of the intensification of capital-skill complementarity in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011624571
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Capital-skill complementarity and the emergence of labor emancipation
Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Galor, Oded; … - 2017
This paper advances a novel hypothesis regarding the historical roots of labor emancipation. It argues that the decline of coercive labor institutions in the industrial phase of development has been an inevitable by-product of the intensification of capital-skill complementarity in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638304