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We introduce publicly funded education in R&D-based economic growth theory. The framework allows us to i) incorporate a … realistic process of human capital accumulation for industrialized countries, ii) reconcile R&D-based growth theory with the …
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Conventional R&D-based growth theory argues that productivity growth is driven by population growth but the data …
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This paper proposes a theory for the gradual evolution of knowledge diffusion and growth over the very long run. A …
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liquidity constraint so that tuition must be paid out of pre-university income. It is shown that student loans provided by home …
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This paper presents a model showing an incentive for a group of people to vote for higher tuition fees, even if these fees have no quality effect. The incentive is based on a non-monetary influence on utility, namely the social status or prestige of graduating. The basic assumption is that the...
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The paper compares different estimation strategies of ordered response models in the presence of non-random unobserved heterogeneity. By running Monte Carlo simulations with a range of randomly generated panel data of differing cross-sectional and longitudinal dimension sizes, we assess the...
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literature, the present framework can reconcile R&D-based growth theory with the available empirical evidence. …
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expectancy. We integrate the theory into a unified growth model and reestablish increasing life expectancy as an engine of long …
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When grades lose their informative value because the percentage of students receiving the best grade rises without any corresponding increase in ability, this is called grade inflation. Conventional wisdom says that such grade inflation is unavoidable since it is essentially costless to award...
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households hold a portfolio of domestic and foreign assets, shift balances depending on risk-return considerations, and maximise … investments at the cost of in ation, currency devaluation, distortions of interest rates, and risk clusters on the central bank … risk clusters on central bank's balance sheet or changes in the domestic price level emerge. This consequently results in …
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