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investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better …
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investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294100
children against investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We …
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investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016225
Economic and demographic outcomes are determined jointly in a choice-theoretic model of fertility, mortality and capital accumulation. There is an endogenous population of reproductive agents who belong to dynastic families of overlapping generations connected through altruism. In addition to...
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We develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations model which is based on the view that education makes workers … increase productivity. One important implication of the model is that the enrolment rate to education has a negative effect on … relationship between education and economic growth that has been found in the empirical macroeconomic literature. Conversely, for a …
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Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to fathers) increases expenditures on children. From this, should we infer that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? In this paper, we develop a non-cooperative model of household decision making to...
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This paper analyzes the effects of structural change on the rates of growth of wages, employment and per-capita income in low-income countries, their dualistic structure shown by a Lewis-type two-sector model. Structural change is measured by the varying shares of sectoral employment in total...
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The paper analyzes the comparative effects of alternative health financing mechanisms on economic growth within a two-sector model with human capital. The transitional growth effects of a social insurance system are stronger than those of an out-of-pocket payment system. A private health...
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education of women is significantly lower than that of men due to the amount of time allocated to child rearing and the … in the education of their daughters and higher life expectancy widens the education gap between men and women. This … return to the education of women increases and families start to invest in the education of their daughters. This in turn …
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