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population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate micro-founded fertility and schooling into …Conventional R&D-based growth theory suggests that productivity growth is positively correlated with population size or … higher growth of productivity and income per capita are associated with lower population growth. The medium-run prospects for …
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Conventional R&D-based growth theory suggests that productivity growth is positively correlated with population size or … population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate R&D-based growth into a unified growth … setup with micro-founded fertility and schooling behavior. We then show how a Beckerian child quality-quantity trade …
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transitions. The model captures the intricate interplay between technological progress, mortality, fertility and economic growth … demographic observation that fertility rates response with a delay to lower child mortality. It also identi es a number of turning …
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We investigate how the season of birth affects human health and aging. For this purpose, we use five waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a health deficit index for 21 European countries. Results from log-linear regressions suggest that, on...
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This study constructs a simple, two-sector Malthusian model with agriculture and industry, and use it to identify the determinants of subsistence income. We make standard assumptions about preferences and production technology, but by contrast to existing studies we assume that children and...
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transitions. The model captures the intricate interplay between technological progress, mortality, fertility and economic growth … demographic observation that fertility rates response with a delay to lower child mortality. It also identifies a number of … various economic and demographic variables. -- Economic Growth ; Mortality ; Fertility ; Structural Change ; Industrial …
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population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate microfounded fertility and schooling into … population ; fertility ; schooling ; human capital ; post-modern society ; post-transitional fertility …Conventional R&D-based growth theory suggests that productivity growth is positively correlated with population size or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008906841
We set up a unified growth model with gender-specific differences in tastes for consumption, fertility, education of … child. We then show that female empowerment has the potential to promote the transition from a state of high fertility, low … education, and sluggish economic growth towards a state of low fertility, high education, and fast economic growth if the child …
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as population size is endogenous. But when productive quality investments are undertaken the historical constancy of …
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We set up a unified growth model with gender-specific differences in tastes for consumption, fertility, education of … child. We then show that female empowerment has the potential to promote the transition from a state of high fertility, low … education, and sluggish economic growth towards a state of low fertility, high education, and fast economic growth if the child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046786