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The Latin American Development Problem: An Interpretation
Restuccia, Diego - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2013)
  <span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'CMR12';">By international standards, gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in Latin America is low: around one fourth of that of the United States. Moreover, in the last five decades, Latin America has failed to catch-up in wealth to the level of the United States while other countries at similar...</span>
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Policy Distortions and Aggregate Productivity with Heterogeneous Plants
Restuccia, Diego; Rogerson, Richard - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 11 (2008) 4, pp. 707-720
that these effects can result from policies that do not rely on aggregate capital accumulation or aggregate relative price … differences. More generally, the model can be used to generate differences in capital accumulation, relative prices, and measured …
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Life expectancy, schooling and lifetime labor supply: the Ben-Porath mechanism revisited
Liu, Pan - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 1, pp. 133-139
life expectancy has a positive effect on schooling but a negative effect on expected lifetime labor supply. This paper …
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The contribution of schooling in development accounting: Results from a nonparametric upper bound
Caselli, Francesco; Ciccone, Antonio - In: Journal of Development Economics 104 (2013) C, pp. 199-211
How much would output increase if underdeveloped economies were to increase their levels of schooling? We contribute to … generated by more schooling. The advantage of our approach is that the upper bound is valid for any number of schooling levels … forms of endogenous technology response to changes in schooling. We also quantify the upper bound for all economies with the …
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Child Labour, human capital formation and size of landholding: short run and long run analysis
Chakraborty, Bidisha; Chakraborty, Kamalika - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 3, pp. 2024-2037
capital accumulation of child depends on time devoted by child for schooling and financial resources invested towards … run as well as long run effects of increase in size of land holding on child labour, human capital formation and growth … and earns wage proportional to human capital and the child is employed in the land possessed by the household and also …
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Explaining Educational Attainment across Countries and over Time
Restuccia, Diego; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 17 (2014) 4, pp. 824-841
Consider the following facts. In 1950, the richest countries attained an average of 8 years of schooling whereas the … poorest countries 1.3 years, a large 6-fold difference. By 2005, the difference in schooling declined to 2-fold because … schooling increased faster in poor than in rich countries. What explains educational attainment differences across countries and …
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Better Access to Water Raises Welfare, But Not Women’s Off-Farm Work
Koolwal, Gayatri; van de Walle, Dominique - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2011) 67, pp. 1-4
women, but is associated with less unpaid work. In countries where substantial gender gaps in schooling exist, enrollment …
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Barriers to capital accumulation in a model of technology adoption and schooling
Restuccia, Diego - In: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 44 (2014) C, pp. 81-91
are amplified by two reinforcing factors: schooling capital differences and aggregate total factor productivity …Standard growth models require large differences in barriers to capital accumulation to reproduce the observed … disparities in the wealth of nations. I introduce technology adoption and schooling decisions into a standard growth model and …
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What determines adult cognitive skills? Influences of pre-school, school, and post-school experiences in Guatemala
Behrman, Jere R.; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John A.; … - In: Latin American Economic Review 23 (2014) 1, pp. 1-32
Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on … control for endogeneity; and (4) point to limitations in using adult school attainment alone to represent human capital. …
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What determines adult cognitive skills? : influences of pre-school, school, and post-school experiences in Guatemala
Behrman, Jere R.; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John A.; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 23 (2014), pp. 1-32
Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on … control for endogeneity; and (4) point to limitations in using adult school attainment alone to represent human capital. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010254285