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Childrens health, human capital accumulation, and R&D-based economic growth

Baldanzi, Annarita; Bucci, Alberto; Prettner, Klaus - 2017

We analyze the effects of children's health on human capital accumulation and on long-run economic growth. For this purpose we design an R&D-based growth model in which the stock of human capital of the next generation is determined by parental education and health investments. We show that i)...

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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...

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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

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The role of human capital in structural change and growth in an open economy : innovative and absorptive capacity effects

Bye, Brita; Fæhn, Taran - 2021

Since the financial crisis in 2008, slow growth has riddled Europe and the Covid-19 pandemic is amplifying the challenge. Promoting economic growth and transforming to a more knowledge-based industrial structure will be high on the agenda for the coming decades. We study how more and better...

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Demographic change and R&D-based economic growth : reconciling theory and evidence

Prettner, Klaus; Trimborn, Timo - 2012

In recent decades, most industrialized countries experienced declining population growth rates caused by declining fertility and associated with rising life expectancy. We analyze the effect of continuing demographic change on medium- and long-run economic growth by setting forth an R&D-based...

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Demographic Change and R&D-Based Economic Growth : Reconciling Theory and Evidence

Trimborn, Timo - 2012

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Inequality of Opportunity and Economic Development

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Walton, Michael - 2006

Just as equality of opportunity becomes an increasingly prominent concept in normative economics, the authors argue that it is also a relevant concept for positive models of the links between distribution and aggregate efficiency. Persuasive microeconomic evidence suggests that inequalities in...

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Inequality, Openness, and Growth through Creative Destruction

Jäggi, Adrian; Schetter, Ulrich; Schneider, Maik T. - 2021

may be amplified by international competition. In countries with a larger distance to the technology frontier, however …

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The Importance of Education Quality for Growth and Development

Gerba, Eddie - 2015

at the technology frontier through a simple process of technological transfers, we are able to show that education … quality not only speeds up the process of technology diffusion but it also helps account for 45-53 per cent of differences in … labor productivity. As we argue, failure to control for the gap in technology levels between the leader and the follower …

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Climate and Unified Growth Theory, the Role of Climate in Comparative Development

Sadik, Jacques - 2007

This paper develops a model of unified growth based on a positive feed back between growth and longevity. The model explains the historical development of industrialized countries as well as why tropical countries did not follow the same path. It also gives a mechanism for conditional...

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