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Child labour, human capital and life expectancy

Cipriani, Giam Pietro - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 2, pp. 978-985

development regimes: a development trap with low human capital and large use of child labour or a high steady state with high …

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Human capital investment and the gender division of labor in a brawn-based economy

Pitt, Mark M.; Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Hassan, Nazmul - 2010

We use a model of human capital investment and activity choice to explain facts describing gender differentials in the levels and returns to human capital investments. These include the higher return to and level of schooling, the small effect of healthiness on wages, and the large effect of...

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The new stylized facts about income and subjective well-being

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2012

In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to...

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Malaria Control and Infant Mortality in Africa

Cogneau, Denis; Rossi, Pauline - 2019

Has massive distribution of insecticide-treated-nets contributed to the reduction in infant mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past 15 years? Using large household surveys collected in 16 countries and exploiting the spatial correlation in distribution campaigns, we estimate the...

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Refugee resettlement, redistribution and growth

Azarnert, Leonid - 2017

This paper studies the effect of refugee resettlement on human capital accumulation. The analysis is performed in a growth model with endogenous fertility. I propose a redistribution scheme and show that refugee resettlement from a more advanced and wealthier economy to a less advanced and less...

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Education, Industry, Trade and Development of Asia-Pacific countries in 1980-99

Guisan, M. Carmen; Exposito, Pilar - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 3 (2003) 2, pp. 117-142

We compare the economic development of Asia-Pacific countries in the 20th century with world average, and analyse the … evolution of education, fertility, population and economic growth in Asia-Pacific countries at the end of the 20th century …, showing that, after centuries of slow economic development, many Asian countries have experienced an important take-off during …

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The American Frontier: Technology versus Immigration

Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 11 (2008) 2, pp. 283-301

investigates, quantitatively, its effect on the westward movement of population and the regional and secular changes in fertility …

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The Heavy Plough and the Agricultural Revolution in Medieval Europe

Andersen, Thomas Barnebeck; Jensen, Peter Sandholt; … - 2014

plough in Northern Europe was an important cause of economic development. White argued that it was impossible to take proper …

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Work life balance and service delivery among women entrepreneurs in South-Western Nigeria

Kuranga, Mutiat Oyinlola - In: Financial Internet Quarterly 16 (2020) 4, pp. 24-34

were selected from a population of 25,122 members of the Nigeria union of tailors in Lagos, Oyo and Osun state using …

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Integrating Gender into a Labor Economics Class

Strenio, Jacqueline; van der Meulen Rodgers, Yana - 2023

This article argues that a systematic integration of gender into labor economics courses based on standard textbooks is both beneficial and straightforward. An undergraduate course in labor economics presents an ideal opportunity to introduce students to the importance of gender differences in...

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