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Child mortality, fertility, and human capital accumulation

Azarnert, Leonid - In: Journal of Population Economics 19 (2006) 2, pp. 285-297

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The impact of local labour markets on investment in further education: Evidence from the England and Wales youth cohort studies

Rice, Patricia - In: Journal of Population Economics 12 (1999) 2, pp. 287-312

Studies, coupled with labour market data, is used to estimate of logit model of choice and assess the role played by social … and market factors. The results show that labour market conditions play an influential role in determining outcomes … labour market, the effects being greater at times of economic recession when unemployment rates are rising. …

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“Backslanted X” fertility dynamics and macroeconomics

Maoz, Yishay - In: Journal of Population Economics 21 (2008) 1, pp. 159-172

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Reassessing the empirical validity of the human-capital augmented neoclassical growth model

Dinopoulos, Elias; Thompson, Peter - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 9 (1999) 1, pp. 135-154

We reassess Mankiw, Romer and Weil's [mrw] version of the Solow model using, as did mrw, cross-sectional data to estimate the steady-state equation governing income per capita levels. The model fails in two critical areas. First, plausible factor shares obtained by mrw are not robust to the...

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A tale of two tails: peakedness properties in inheritance models of evolutionary theory

Ibragimov, Rustam - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 18 (2008) 5, pp. 597-613

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Humankapital in der Transformation - Das Beispiel der neuen Länder

Müller, Ralf - Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH) - 2000

with regard to hu-man capital only shows up as long as it concerns skills that are built up on the job, i.e., by learning … by doing; even more, this disadvantage has been decreasing in the 1990's. In contrast, as long as it concerns skills that …

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Remittances, liquidity constraints and human capital investments in Ecuador.

Calero, C.; Bedi, Arjun S.; Sparrow, R. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2008

Over the last decade Ecuador has experienced a strong increase in financial transfers from migrated workers. This paper investigates how remittances via trans-national networks affect human capital investments through relaxing resource constraints and facilitate households in consumption...

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Human capital and technology diffusion

Benhabib, Jess; Spiegel, Mark M. - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2002

This paper generalizes the Nelson-Phelps catch-up model of technology diffusion. We allow for the possibility that the pattern of technology diffusion can be exponential, which would predict that nations would exhibit positive catch-up with the leader nation, or logistic, in which a country with...

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Why the apple doesn't fall far: understanding intergenerational transmission of human capital

Black, Sandra; Devereux, Paul; Salvanes, Kjell - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2004

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely that more able individuals who have higher education...

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Growth and investment across countries

Benhabib, Jess; Spiegel, Mark M. - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 1997

This paper examines the channels through which country characteristics affect growth. We investigate whether "primitives," or rates of factor accumulation, are sufficient statistics for economic growth, and whether "ancillary variables," such as political instability, income distribution, and...

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