This thesis consists of four self-contained papers in macroeconomics and population dynamics. The first two chapters deal with long run endogenous growth whereas the last two chapters deal with accumulation of human and physical capital in modern economies. The first essay analyses the interaction of child mortality, child labor and human capital investment. The second essay analyses the evolution of fertility as a function of adult life expectancy depending on the availability of a formal schooling system. The third essay studies investment into human capital and physical capital in an aging society within the framework of a 2-period OLG model. The last essay quantifies the welfare effects of aging in a calibrated model with endogenous lab...
This thesis contains four independent chapters with all of them emphasizing the role of purposeful h...
The paper aims to explicitly determine the distribution of human capital across hierarchic education...
This thesis comprises of three major chapters concerning the effects of demographic factors on aggre...
This thesis consists of four self-contained papers in macroeconomics and population dynamics. The fi...
This dissertation studies determinants and consequences of human capital formation over the life cyc...
This thesis is composed by three independent chapters: two of them are original research papers, and...
This thesis focuses on three dimensions of human capital formation: investment during childhood, the...
This paper employs a large scale overlapping generations (OLG) model with endogenous education to ev...
How do population ageing shocks affect the long-run macroeconomic performance of an economy? To answ...
This paper applies insights from theoretical and empirical research in economic growth to analyze th...
In this dissertation I discuss how the allocation of human capital, in the form of education, across...
This thesis analyzes some aspects of the relationship between health and economic growth from a theo...
The paper hypothesizes that the level of aggregate human capital in an economy affects the overall r...
Most models of economic growth are infinite horizon models that neglect the role of human capital in...
This paper investigates the relationship between per-capita human capital investment and the birth r...
This thesis contains four independent chapters with all of them emphasizing the role of purposeful h...
The paper aims to explicitly determine the distribution of human capital across hierarchic education...
This thesis comprises of three major chapters concerning the effects of demographic factors on aggre...
This thesis consists of four self-contained papers in macroeconomics and population dynamics. The fi...
This dissertation studies determinants and consequences of human capital formation over the life cyc...
This thesis is composed by three independent chapters: two of them are original research papers, and...
This thesis focuses on three dimensions of human capital formation: investment during childhood, the...
This paper employs a large scale overlapping generations (OLG) model with endogenous education to ev...
How do population ageing shocks affect the long-run macroeconomic performance of an economy? To answ...
This paper applies insights from theoretical and empirical research in economic growth to analyze th...
In this dissertation I discuss how the allocation of human capital, in the form of education, across...
This thesis analyzes some aspects of the relationship between health and economic growth from a theo...
The paper hypothesizes that the level of aggregate human capital in an economy affects the overall r...
Most models of economic growth are infinite horizon models that neglect the role of human capital in...
This paper investigates the relationship between per-capita human capital investment and the birth r...
This thesis contains four independent chapters with all of them emphasizing the role of purposeful h...
The paper aims to explicitly determine the distribution of human capital across hierarchic education...
This thesis comprises of three major chapters concerning the effects of demographic factors on aggre...