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Endogenous Fertility, Mortality and Growth
Blackburn, Keith; Cipriani, Giam - 2010
Economic and demographic outcomes are determined jointly in a choice-theoretic model of fertility, mortality and capital accumulation. There is an endogenous population of reproductive agents who belong to dynastic families of overlapping generations connected through altruism. In addition to...
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Education and growth with learning by doing
Marconi, Gabriele; Grip, Andries de - 2015
We develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations model which is based on the view that education makes workers … increase productivity. One important implication of the model is that the enrolment rate to education has a negative effect on … relationship between education and economic growth that has been found in the empirical macroeconomic literature. Conversely, for a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529431
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Does female empowerment promote economic development?
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - 2014
Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to fathers) increases expenditures on children. From this, should we infer that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? In this paper, we develop a non-cooperative model of household decision making to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250142
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Structural change, wage formation and economic growth in low-income countries
Bender, Dieter - 2012
This paper analyzes the effects of structural change on the rates of growth of wages, employment and per-capita income in low-income countries, their dualistic structure shown by a Lewis-type two-sector model. Structural change is measured by the varying shares of sectoral employment in total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947821
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Health financing mechanisms, access to health and economic growth
Bender, Katja - 2011
The paper analyzes the comparative effects of alternative health financing mechanisms on economic growth within a two-sector model with human capital. The transitional growth effects of a social insurance system are stronger than those of an out-of-pocket payment system. A private health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011950796
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Patience and prosperity
Strulik, Holger - 2009
This paper introduces wealth-dependent time preference into a simple model of endogenous growth. The model generates adjustment dynamics in line with the historical facts on savings and economic growth in Europe from the High Middle Ages to today. Along a virtuous cycle of development more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270036
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Knowledge Codification and Endogenous Growth
Schneider, Maik T. - 2007
The usual models of endogenous growth treat knowledge codification as a byproduct of R&D and as costless. In contrast to this, one can observe great efforts of private firms for the purposeful codification of knowledge. We incorporate costly knowledge codification in an overlapping generations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753129
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Health Financing Mechanisms, Access to Health and Economic Growth
Bender, Katja - 2011
The paper analyzes the comparative effects of alternative health financing mechanisms on economic growth within a two-sector model with human capital. The transitional growth effects of a social insurance system are stronger than those of an out-of-pocket payment system. A private health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011918480
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Structural Change, Wage Formation and Economic Growth in Low-Income Countries
Bender, Dieter - 2012
This paper analyzes the effects of structural change on the rates of growth of wages, employment and per-capita income in low-income countries, their dualistic structure shown by a Lewis-type two-sector model. Structural change is measured by the varying shares of sectoral employment in total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011918482
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Economic growth and convergence during the transition to production using automation capital
Dujava, Daniel; Lábaj, Martin - 2019
This paper examines the implications of automation capital in a Solow growth model with two types of labour. We study the transition from standard production to production using automation capital which substitutes low-skilled workers. We assume that despite advances in technology, AI and...
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