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Ice age climate, somatic capital, and the timing of the neolithic transition

Grall, Lothar - 2016

This paper proposes somatic capital as a hitherto neglected variable in the discussion of factors impacting the timing of the Neolithic transition. It develops an evolutionary growth theory that builds on the trade-off between the quantity and the quality of offspring. The theory suggests that...

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The World’s Oldest Profession? Employment-Age Profiles from the Transactional Sex Market

Wilson, Nicholas - 2017

general population surveys asking women about transactional sex and a relatively high documented prevalence of employment in …

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Institutional economics: A sketch of economic growth policy

Buhr, Walter - 2018

In the postwar period until today the call for more intensive economic growth, again and again, enjoyed a substantial popularity in the world of politics, in particular with reference to possible current solutions of given economic problems. Here growth considerations and decisions in the past...

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Political power, resistance to technological change and economic development: Evidence from the 19th century Sweden

Tyrefors Hinnerich, Björn; Lindgren, Erik; … - 2017

This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that landed elites may block technological change and economic development if they fear that they will lose future political power (Acemoglu and Robinson (2002, 2006, and 2012). It exploits a plausible exogenous change in the distribution of political...

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Jewish Occupational Selection : Education, Restrictions, or Minorities?

Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - 2004

This paper documents the major features of Jewish economic history in the first millennium to explain the distinctive …

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Human Capital Formation, Life Expectancy and the Process of Economic Development

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2002

This paper presents a non-Malthusian theory of long-term development We model the interplay between the process of human capital formation, technological progress, and the biological constraint of finite lifetime expectancy. All these processes are interdependent and determined endogenously. The...

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Life expectancy and economic growth: the role of the demographic transition

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2009

transition improvements in life expectancy primarily increase population. Improvements in life expectancy do, however, reduce … population growth and foster human capital accumulation after the onset of the demographic transition. This implies that the … effect of life expectancy on population, human capital and income per capita is not the same before and after the demographic …

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The long-run effects of mortality decline in developing countries

Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio - 2011

population growth, but the desire of status hampers fertility and prevents capital-diluting demographic expansion. If status …-seeking is strong, then the decline of mortality decreases population growth below its original level. …

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The fight against geography: Malaria and economic development in Italian regions

Percoco, Marco - 2011

Geography has long been considered as a fundamental prerequisite for economic development and growth. In recent years, a growing number of papers have considered the role of physical geography as a determinant of regional growth and development by considering it as a source of intrinsic...

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Health Capital Provision and Human Capital Accumulation

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2020

This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with endogenous fertility, in which the usual parental trade-off...

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