The Production of Human Capital: Endowments, Investments and Fertility
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JEL classification:
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2012-10-06 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-HAP-2012-10-06 (Economics of Happiness)
- NEP-HRM-2012-10-06 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
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