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Intergenerational transmission of skills during childhood and optimal public policy
Casarico, Alessandra; Micheletto, Luca; Sommacal, Alessandro - 2011
The paper characterizes the optimal tax policy and the optimal quality of day care services in a OLG model with warm-glow altruism where parental choices over child care arrangements affect the probability that the child becomes a high-skilled adult in a type-specific way. With respect to...
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The quantity and quality of children : a semi-parametric Bayesian IV approach
Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Halla, Martin; Posekany, … - 2014
, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome di- mension. Second, we apply a semi …
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
, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …
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
, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …
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
, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012312614
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The Supply of Child Labour
Cigno, Alessandro - 2004
The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261870
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Degrees of development: how geographic latitude sets the pace of industrialization and demographic change
Strulik, Holger - 2008
Successful economic development is usually characterized by two salient phenomena: industrialization and demographic transition. Chronologically both events happen so closely to each other that historians and economists alike suspect that they are interrelated. This paper develops a theory for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264936
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Sleeping
Laufey Asgeirsdottir, Tinna - 2008
Sleep is a source of energy. This energy is available in limited quantity and individuals must decide when it should be renewed and when it should be consumed. The economics of sleeping and the economics of resource extraction are one and the same. More specifically, utility maximization with...
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Health Capital Provision and Human Capital Accumulation
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2020
This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility …, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with … an additional factor that affects children's human capital, which is health. I analyze the overall society-wide effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840695
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Newborn Health and the Business Cycle : Is it Good to Be Born in Bad Times?
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2014
We study the effect of the cycle on the health of newborn babies using 30 years of birth-certificate data for Spain. We …, the effect on health is not the result of selection, since the main result survives the inclusion of parents' fixed …-effects. Analysis of National Health Survey data shows that fertility-age women engage in healthier behaviors during recessions (in …
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