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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 88 Seiten) , ill , 28 cm

Edition: Online-Ausg

ISBN: 0821327895

Series Statement: LSMS working paper no.103

Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-55)

Language: English

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Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 0-631-15377-2

Language: English

Subjects: Economics

Keywords: Entwicklungsökonomie ; Entwicklungspolitik ; Entwicklungstheorie ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift

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Author information: Schultz, T. Paul 1940-

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Format: XI,322 S. : graph.Darst.

ISBN: 0-691-04163-6

Series Statement: A Rand Corporation research study

Language: English

Subjects: Economics , Political Science

Keywords: Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Sozialstruktur ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung

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Format: 1 online resource (1055 p.)

ISBN: 1-281-27309-0 , 9786611273095 , 0-08-056942-0

Series Statement: Handbooks in economics ; 9

Content: The field of development economics has evolved since volume 3 of the Handbook of Development Economics was published more than a decade ago. Volume 4 takes stock of some of the newer trends and their implications for research in the field and our understanding of economic development.The handbook is divided into four sections which reflect these developments, of which the first deals with agricultural and rural development. Section two is concerned with developments in the theory and evidence regarding public goods and political economy. The third section is focused on the behavior of hou

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Front cover; Handbook of Development Economics; Copyright page; Introduction to the Series; Contents of the Handbook; Introduction; Contents of Volume 4; Part 10: New Insights into Rural and Agricultural Development; Chapter 17. Economic Development and the Decline of Agricultural Employment; Abstract; Keywords; 1. Introduction; 2. Literature; 3. Theory; 4. Empirical findings: Rural non-farm employment and agricultural development in India; 5. Empirical findings: Rural out-migration in South Asia; 6. Conclusion; References; Chapter 48. Information Networks in Dynamic Agrarian Economies , AbstractKeywords; 1. Introduction; 2. The adoption of new agricultural technology; 3. The fertility transition; 4. Health and education; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Part 11: Public Goods and Political Economy: Theory and Evidence; Chapter 49. Public Action for Public Goods; Abstract; Keywords; 1. Introduction; 2. Theories of collective action; 3. Evidence on public good provision; 4. Some top-down interventions; 5. Conclusion; References; Chapter 50. Understanding Political Corruption in Low Income Countries; Abstract; Keywords; 1. Introduction , 2. Politician's identity and political corruption3. The political organization of low income countries and its consequences for corruption; 4. Conclusion; Data Appendix; References; Part 12: Human Resources and Household Responses to Market Incentives and Public Goods; Chapter 51. Household Formation and Marriage Markets in Rural Areas; Abstract; Keywords; 1. Introduction; 2. Household formation; 3. Marriage; 4. Marriage dissolution; 5. Changes in household structure; 6. Conclusions; References; Chapter 52. Population Policies, Fertility, Women's Human Capital, and Child Quality; Abstract , Keywords1. Introduction - Why are economists interested in fertility?; 2. Long term effects of fertility for individuals and families: A micro perspective; 3. Policy interventions in family planning, child and reproductive health?; 4. A conceptual framework for family lifetime fertility and coordinated decisions; 5. Empirical studies of fertility and the consequences for families; 6. Tentative conclusions and an agenda for research on fertility and development; References; Chapter 53. Health Economics for Low-Income Countries; Abstract; Keywords; 1. Introduction; 2. Health economics , 3. Health economics for low-income countries4. Review of the literature; 5. Conclusion; References; Chapter 54. Health over the Life Course; Abstract; Keywords; 1. Introduction; 2. Conceptual framework and methods; 3. Meaning of health; 4. Empirical evidence on health over the life course; 5. HIV/AIDS; 6. Conclusions; References; Chapter 55. Schooling in Developing Countries: The Roles of Supply, Demand and Government Policy; Abstract; Keywords; 1. Introduction; 2. Costs, returns and schooling gaps; 3. How do government policies affect schooling gaps?; 4. Static model; 5. Dynamic models , 6. Measurement matters , English

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ISBN: 1-280-01659-0 , 9786610016594 , 0-585-23618-6

Series Statement: LSMS working paper, no. 103

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Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8213-2789-5

Language: English

Keywords: Statistics

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Content: The program evaluation literature for population and health policies is in flux, with many disciplines documenting biological and behavioral linkages from fetal development to late life mortality, chronic disease, and disability, though their implications for policy remain uncertain. Both macro- and microeconomics seek to understand and incorporate connections between economic development and the demographic transition. The focus here is on research methods, findings, and questions that economists can clarify regarding the causal relationships between economic development, health outcomes, and reproductive behavior, which operate in many directions, posing problems for identifying causal pathways. The connection between conditions under which people live and their expected life span and health status refers to “health production functions.” The relationships between an individual's stock of health and productivity, well-being, and duration of life encompasses the “returns to health human capital.” The control of reproduction improves directly the well-being of women, and the economic opportunities of her offspring. The choice of population policies may be country specific and conditional on institutional setting, even though many advances in biomedical and public health knowledge, including modern methods of birth control, are now widely available. Evaluation of a policy intervention in terms of cost effectiveness is typically more than a question of technological efficiency, but also the motivation for adoption, and the behavioral responsiveness to the intervention of individuals, families, networks, and communities. Well-specified research strategies are required to address (1) the economic production of health capacities from conception to old age; (2) the wage returns to increasing health status attributable to policy interventions; (3) the conditions affecting fertility, family time allocation, and human capital investments; and (4) the consequences for women and their families of policies which change the timing as well as number of births.

In: Handbook of development economics, Amsterdam : North-Holland, 2010, (2010), Seite 4785-4881, 0444529446

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-52944-2.00010-0

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Content: This publication titled Handbook of Development Economics, volume 4takes stock of some of the newer trends and their implications for research in the field and our understanding of economic development. First, the micro-economic orientation of the field is increasingly evident, and is reflected here. Economic behavior is traced from the individual to family and in some cases to the local schools or communities and labor markets. Because most people in poor countries continue to work in agriculture, the focus is often on the family farm and includes household production. A second emerging feature of the field is an interest in explaining how institutions develop and operate in low-income countries, or political economy. A third change in the field is the vast improvement in data, primarily in the form of household surveys and censuses combined with local community modules which facilitate the identification of causal effects from outside of the household, in terms of environmental factors, relative prices, local policies and facilities, in which the response of individuals, families, and communities to policies may be heterogeneous. A variety of econometric methods have become commonplace, relying on improved panel and community data which allow the introduction of fixed effects and provide more credible instruments for program treatment when randomized designs are not feasible, and have arguably attenuated or eliminated some of the more obvious sources of estimation bias. A fourth development is the alternative strategies adopted to evaluate the effects of policy initiatives, including the selection of who participates in the policy programs from among those who are eligible to participate.

In: Handbook of development economics, Amsterdam : North-Holland, 2007, (2007), Seite xv-xx, 0444531009

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In: 9780080569420

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In: pages:xv-xx

Language: English

DOI: 10.1016/S1573-4471(07)04102-2

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Content: Population policies are defined here as voluntary programs which help people control their fertility and expect to improve their lives. There are few studies of the long-run effects of policy-induced changes in fertility on the welfare of women, such as policies that subsidize the diffusion and use of best practice birth control technologies. Evaluation of the consequences of such family planning programs almost never assess their long-run consequences, such as on labor supply, savings, or investment in the human capital of children, although they occasionally estimate the short-run association with the adoption of contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider instrumental variables as a substitute for policy interventions which not only determine variation in fertility but are arguably independent of the reproductive preferences of parents or unobserved constraints that might influence family life cycle behaviors. Using these instrumental variables to estimate the effect of this exogenous variation in fertility on family outcomes, economists discover these “cross effects” of fertility on family welfare outcomes tend to be substantially smaller in absolute magnitude than the OLS estimates of partial correlations referred to in the literature as evidence of the beneficial social externalities associated with the policies that reduce fertility. The paper summarizes critically the empirical literature on fertility and development and proposes an agenda for research on the topic.

In: Handbook of development economics, Amsterdam : North-Holland, 2007, (2007), Seite 3249-3303, 0444531009

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In: year:2007

In: pages:3249-3303

Language: English

DOI: 10.1016/S1573-4471(07)04052-1

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ISBN: 0444703373

Content: This chapter focuses on schooling, as an investment with market returns is not intended to detract from the importance of education as a public good and as a source of consumption benefits, but rather to review how economic concepts and statistical methods have recently progressed in quantifying the roles of education in economic development. This chapter surveys a small part of the extensive literature on the linkages among education, productivity, and development, and assesses several areas where concerted research might clarify important issues and potentially change policies. This chapter presents an economic interpretation of this educational explosion. Most of the growth in public expenditures on education is attributed to increases in growth of real income per adult. The chapter describes the expansion of the world's educational system both in terms of its inputs of public and private resources and its output of students, and then estimates how income, price, and population constraints appear to govern this process. The chapter presents a contrast on causal frameworks proposed to explain the relationship between education and productivity, and discusses sources of data to measure the relationship and discriminate among causal interpretations. The chapter reviews evidence on the market returns to schooling measured for entrepreneurs and employees, men and women, and migrants and nonmigrants. The chapter also presents the evidence of schooling's effects on nonmarket production. The chapter discusses the policy issues for development that arise from the apparent effects of education on economic productivity and the mechanisms used to finance and manage the educational system.

In: Handbook of development economics, Amsterdam : North-Holland, 1988, (1988), Seite 543-630, 0444703373

In: 9780444703378

In: year:1988

In: pages:543-630

Language: English

DOI: 10.1016/S1573-4471(88)01016-2

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