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Population, labor force, and long swings in economic growth : the American experience
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Why Isn't the Whole World Developed?
TL;DR: The history of modern economic growth has depended mainly on the diffusion of a body of knowledge concerning new production techniques and the acquisition and application of this knowledge by different countries has been governed largely by whether their populations have acquired traits and motivations associated with formal schooling.
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An economic framework for fertility analysis.
TL;DR: This more comprehensive framework is compared with the usual approach in the analysis of several empirical problems-non-marital fertility, premodern fertility fluctuations and differentials, and the secular fertility decline-and is shown to be better suited for incorporating the concepts and hypotheses of noneconomists along with those of economists.
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Schooling and Economic Well-Being: The Role of Nonmarket Effects.
Robert Haveman,Barbara Wolfe +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify a catalog of nonmarketed effects, many of which have been recently studied by economists, and then propose a procedure for estimating a willingness-to-pay value for these effects.
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Fertility in Advanced Societies: A Review of Research
TL;DR: This paper provides a review of fertility research in advanced societies, societies in which birth control is the default option, and summarizes how contemporary research has explained ongoing and expected fertility changes across time and space.
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How does mother's schooling affect family health, nutrition, medical care usage, and household sanitation?
Jere R. Behrman,Barbara Wolfe +1 more
TL;DR: A LISREL system of production functions for maternal and child health and reduced-form relations for nutrition, medical care usage, and household water and sanitation is estimated, with latent variable representations of these dependent variables and of community and maternal endowments.