Browsing Department of Economics (ECO) by Subject "Human Capital"

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    Title: ‘The Child is Father of the Man:’ Implications for the Demographic Transition  Author(s): DE LA CROIX, David; LICANDRO, Omar Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: We propose a new theory of the demographic transition based on the evidence that body development during childhood is an important factor for life expectancy. The key and novel mechanism of the model is that parents face ...