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Gender equity and the escape from poverty
Prettner, Klaus; Strulik, Holger - 2014
We set up a unified growth model with gender-specific differences in tastes for consumption, fertility, education of … developed countries, we assume that mothers desire to have no more children than fathers and to invest no less in education per … education, and sluggish economic growth towards a state of low fertility, high education, and fast economic growth if the child …
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Gender inequality as a barrier to economic growth : a review of the theoretical literature
Klasen, Stephan; Santos Silva, Manuel - 2018 - This version: August 19, 2018
In this article, we survey the theoretical literature investigating the role of gender inequality in economic development. The vast majority of theories reviewed suggest that gender inequality is a barrier to development, particularly over the long run. Among the many plausible mechanisms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011888636
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The contribution of female health to economic development
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2016
children against investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011533051
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The contribution of female health to economic development
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2015
investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309090
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The contribution of female health to economic development
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2015
investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294100
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On the fertility transition in Africa : income, child mortality, or education?
Mveyange, Anthony - 2015
present fresh evidence that shows education, especially for women, is an important determinant of the fertility transition in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342328
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The returns to parental health : evidence from Indonesia
Luca, Dara Lee; Bloom, David E. - 2018
This paper investigates the economic returns to parental health. To account for potential endogeneity between parental health and child outcomes, we leverage longitudinal microdata from Indonesia to estimate individual fixed effects models. Our results show that the economic returns to parental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951058
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The long-run effects of mortality decline in developing countries
Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2011
Since World War II, mortality has declined in the developing world. This paper examines the effects of this mortality decline on demographic and economic growth by a family-optimization model, in which fertility is endogenous and wealth yields utility through its status. The decline in mortality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009124149
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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...
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