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Chapter 25 The political economy of intergenerational cooperation
Cigno, Alessandro - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1505-1558). 2006
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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Chapter 19. Technological Progress and Economic Transformation
Greenwood, Jeremy; Seshadri, Ananth - 2005
are: (i) the secular decline in fertility between 1800 and 1980, (ii) the decline in agricultural employment and the rise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023768
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The demographic transition : causes and consequences
Galor, Oded - 2010
and the transition to modern growth -- Demographic transition ; Gender Gap ; Human capital ; Fertility ; Mortality … the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008669192
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Immigration, fertility and human capital : a model of economic decline of the West
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2010
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 demographic transition : causes and consequences
Galor, Oded - 2012
and the transition to modern growth. -- demographic transition ; gender gap ; human capital ; fertility ; mortality … the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530744
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Integrated public education, fertility and human capital
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011
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 …
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On the importance of fertility behavior in school finance policy design
Yılmaz, Kuzey - 2014
To design an optimal education policy, it is essential to account for the fertility differential between the poor and … economy. It is very important to consider general equilibrium effects because the change in either fertility behavior or … fertility behavior, especially differential fertility substantially underestimates the role of credit constraints in the economy …
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Mortality, Fertility and Persistent Income Inequality
Sarkar, Jayanta - 2007
-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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Education and Consanguineous Marriage
Akyol, Pelin; Mocan, Naci H. - 2021
At least one of every five marriages is consanguineous (between couples who are second cousins or closer) in the Middle East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates serious health problems for the offspring and...
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A contribution to the theory of fertility and economic development
Gori, Luca; Sodini, Mauro - 2018
with endogenous fertility. The economy is comprised of overlapping generations of rational and identical individuals and … perspective, the distinguishing feature of this work is that endogenous fertility per se is able to explain the existence of low … enter development trajectories with high GDP and low fertility and others experience under-performances with low GDP and …
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