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This chapter examines the scope for mutually beneficial intergenerational cooperation, and looks at various attempts to theoretically explain the emergence of norms and institutions that facilitate this cooperation. The contributions reviewed come from branches of economics as far apart as...
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data from Turkey and leveraging an education reform which increased mandatory schooling by three years, we find that the …
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are: (i) the secular decline in fertility between 1800 and 1980, (ii) the decline in agricultural employment and the rise …
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the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility … and the transition to modern growth -- Demographic transition ; Gender Gap ; Human capital ; Fertility ; Mortality …
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I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a lowfertility indigenous population result in … ; redistribution ; ethnic diversity ; fertility ; human capital ; economic growth …
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the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility … and the transition to modern growth. -- demographic transition ; gender gap ; human capital ; fertility ; mortality …
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multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility … society. -- Public education ; private education ; integration ; fertility ; human capital …This article analyzes the consequences of integration in public education. I show that the flight from the integrated …
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To design an optimal education policy, it is essential to account for the fertility differential between the poor and … children, determine the quality of children by choosing private expenditures on basic education in addition to public … expenditures on basic education, leave a bequest that could be used to finance college education. Moreover, there is an uncertainty …
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-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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