Inequality and Growth: Why Differential Fertility Matters

By David de la Croix, Matthias Doepke. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Cheap Children and the Persistence of Poverty (2001, positive): “Hence, consistent with evidence offered by Perotti (1996) and Barro (1999), and the quantitative analysis of de la Croix and Doepke (2003),11 inequality affects economic growth negatively via its interaction with fertility choice.12 Moreover, in contrast to the existing literature, the result of a…”
Life Expectancy and the Environment (2010, background): “easily seen from the following derivative ∂mt ∂πt = ργ[(1− η)et + σwt − λQt] (β + σ)(1 + ργπt)(2) , (6)”
Would empowering women initiate the demographic transition in least-developed countries? (2010, methodology): “In addition, referent to the discussion in De la Croix and Doepke (2003), it is supposed that the opportunity cost of a child is equivalent to about 15 percent of the mother’s total time endowment and that children live with parents for 15 years.”
Inequality and growth: evidence from panel cointegration (2011, background): “De la Croix and Doepke [10] also focus on the importance of human capital.”
Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence (2018, methodology): “…population growth, total education years, and life expectancy) (Galor andMoav 2004); (3) socio-political instability (Alesina and Perotti 1996; Acemoglu and Robinson 2000) proxied by a measure of political participation; and (4) fertility (de la Croix and Doepke 2003) proxied by the fertility rate.”
The past and future of knowledge-based growth (2012, neutral): “…the increase of individual human capital endowments 3 For unified growth theory see, among others, Galor and Weil (2000), Galor and Moav (2002), Galor and Moav (2004), Galor et al. (2009), De la Croix and Doepke (2003), De la Croix and Doepke (2004), Moav (2005), Galor (2005), and Galor (2011).”
Public versus Private Education when Differential Fertility Matters (2002, methodology): “These papers were the first to demonstrate how different development regimes can arise from endogenous fertility decisions. ucation of each child.”
To Segregate or to Integrate: Education Politics and Democracy (2007, neutral): “Concerning the role of political power, we turn 3The model presented here does not have an explicit dynamic structure; dynamics are discussed in the working paper version of this paper, de la Croix and Doepke (2003b). to the relationship between democracy and education funding.”
Inequality and growth in advanced economies: an empirical investigation (2010, background): “The demographic mechanisms (e.g., [ 21 ]a nd [20]) and credit market constrains (e.g., [29]) are plausible explanations of why human capital inequality may be harmful for growth, as shown by Castello-Climent [18], particularly in developing countries, where fertility rates are higher, life expectan”
Inequality, Economic Growth and Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) (2014, background): “…Perotti (1993), Persson and Tabellini (1994), Alesina and Rodrik (1994), Clarke (1995), Birdsall et al. (1995), Alesina and Perotti (1996), De la Croix and Doepke (2003), Josten (2003, 2004), Ahituv and Moav (2003), Viaene and Zilcha (2003), Castelló-Climent (2004), Knowles (2001, 2005), Davis…”
Human Capital Inequality, Life Expectancy and Economic Growth (2008, neutral): “4 De la Croix and Licandro (1999) and Kalmeli-Ozcan et al. (2000), among others, have developed continuous time overlapping generations models in which optimal schooling investment decisions depend positively on life expectancy.”