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are: (i) the secular decline in fertility between 1800 and 1980, (ii) the decline in agricultural employment and the rise …
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growth model with endogenous fertility. I propose a redistribution scheme and show that refugee resettlement from a more …
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Africa. The results from the study reveal that raising stock market capitalization by a marginal average of 10% induces … a potential avenue for expediting economic growth. There is therefore a dire need for policymakers in Africa to direct …
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"preventive checks" (marriage, fertility). Developing economies since the Industrial Revolution, and more recently especially … Asian economies, have experienced steady income growth accompanied by sharply falling fertility and mortality rates ….We develop a dynamic model of endogenous fertility, longevity, and human capital formation within a Malthusian framework that …
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the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …
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the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility … and the transition to modern growth -- Demographic transition ; Gender Gap ; Human capital ; Fertility ; Mortality …
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the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility … and the transition to modern growth. -- demographic transition ; gender gap ; human capital ; fertility ; mortality …
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of less prosperous ethnic minorities raises fertility among the unskilled minority recipients, lowers fertility among the …. -- redistribution ; ethnic diversity ; fertility ; human capital ; economic growth …
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In spite of two centuries of extensive debate, a consistent framework of the classical theory of population on which economists can universally agree has not been established. This means that either the theory lacks consistency or it has been misunderstood in important ways. This paper attempts...
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In a life-cycle dynastic family model with endogenous fertility, labor-leisure, and accumulations of human and physical … externality. Compared with the social optimum, such externality causes higher fertility and less parental time and expenditure … excessive fertility and under-investment of parental expenditure in child human capital. By calibrating the laissez-faire model …
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