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From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History

Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - 2003

Since the Middle Ages the Jews have been engaged primarily in urban, skilled occupations, such as crafts, trade, finance, and medicine. This distinctive occupational selection occurred between the seventh and the ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire and then it spread to other locations. We...

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From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History

Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

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What Accounts for the US Ascendancy to Economic Superpower by the Early 20th Century: The Morrill Act – Human Capital Hypothesis

Ehrlich, Isaac; Cook, Adam; Yin, Yong - 2018

Maddison's international panel data show that technically it was the faster growth rate of the US economy that led to its overtaking the UK as economic superpower. We explore the contributing factors. Identifying the land-grant colleges system triggered by the 1862/1890 Morrill Acts (MAs) as a...

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Was Higher Education a Major Channel through which the US Became an Economic Superpower in the 20th Century?

Cook, Adam; Ehrlich, Isaac - 2018

schooling, job training, and health as well as through research and development projects and informal knowledge transfers (cf …

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Equilibrium Health Spending and Population Aging in a Model of Endogenous Growth: Will the GDP Share of Health Spending Keep Rising?

Ehrlich, Isaac; Yin, Yong - 2014

The apparently unrelenting growth in the GDP-share of health spending (SHS) has been a perennial issue of policy … health protection are subject to diminishing returns. Our prototype model, allowing for both quantity and quality of life as … drive long-term trends in aging and health spending and establishes a direct relation between health investments at young …

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Equilibrium Health Spending and Population Aging in a Model of Endogenous Growth: Will the GDP Share of Health Spending Keep Rising?

Ehrlich, Isaac; Yin, Yong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy

Polachek, Solomon; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - 2014

This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...

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A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy

Polachek, Solomon; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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Africa's Prospects for Enjoying a Demographic Dividend

Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2016

We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa remain high, they have started to decline. According to UN projections, they will fall further in the coming decades such that by the mid-21st century the ratio of the...

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Individual mortality and macro-economic conditions from birth to death

Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, France; van den Berg, … - 2003

health indicators. The results indicate a strong effect of macro-economic conditions during childhood on mortality at all …

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