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capital accumulation of child depends on time devoted by child for schooling and financial resources invested towards … allocation of the child between schooling and work. It is found that in the short run, an increase in size of land holding leads …
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that when poverty constrains schooling, unconditional cash transfers amplify a household's demand for education by reducing … the opportunity costs of schooling. …
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How much would output increase if underdeveloped economies were to increase their levels of schooling? We contribute to … generated by more schooling. The advantage of our approach is that the upper bound is valid for any number of schooling levels …
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We explore the hypothesis that demographic changes started in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are at the root of the acceleration in growth rates at the dawn of the modern age. During this period, life tables for Geneva and Venice show a decline in adult mortality; French marriage...
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probabilities always induce longer schooling and later retirement but have an ambiguous effect on growth. The relationship between …
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"This paper assesses the impact of prime-age mortality on human capital formation and labor markets by examining, first, the impact on adolescents, who may leave school in order to enter the labor market, and second, the impact on adult females who, upon the loss of a breadwinner, may decide to...
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schooling in order to help support their families. Female school enrollment may also decrease because girls are required to stay … at home to take care of the sick. Therefore, the total negative impact on schooling is larger among female adolescents …
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, good long-term nutritional status) helps insure resilience to disasters by protecting schooling investments and outcomes … frequent, repeated drought exposure reduces schooling investments in some cases, with larger negative impacts seen among … stock in the household) also help maintain schooling investments to at least the same degree as the stock of human capital …
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There is anecdotal evidence that the standard of living for the educated has fallen in Venezuela over the last few years. This evidence comes as a surprise because after experiencing an economic downturn in 2002 and 2003, Venezuela's economy has boomed (gross domestic product growth has hovered...
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We explore the hypothesis that demographic changes started in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are the root of the acceleration in growth rates at the dawn of the modern age. During this period, life tables for Geneva and Venice show a decline in adult mortality; French marriage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005065482