eprintid: 6372
rev_number: 6
eprint_status: archive
userid: 1
dir: disk0/00/00/63/72
datestamp: 2006-04-27 10:39:07
lastmod: 2014-04-03 19:39:30
status_changed: 2012-08-14 15:18:10
type: doctoralThesis
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Bruhns, Ramona
title: Essays on the Economics of Child Labor and Fertility
title_de: Aufsätze über die Ökonomie von Kinderarbeit und Fertilität
ispublished: pub
subjects: ddc-330
divisions: i-702000
adv_faculty: af-18
abstract: This dissertation analyses the economic development of societies in which parents decide about not only education but also fertility. The parents' decisions are motivated by both financial and altruistic reasons. We focus on human capital formation and population growth as the determinants of economic development, and find that multiple steady-states can exist. In the first two chapters, the focus of the analysis is on the effects of fiscal interventions on both the household decisions and the dynamic of the system. In the third chapter, we examine the households' reaction to mortality shocks such as the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and their long-run economic effects when certain government interventions are financed from sources outside the system.
abstract_translated_lang: eng
date: 2006
date_type: published
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00006372
ppn_swb: 550640584
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-63728
date_accepted: 2006-02-10
advisor: HASH(0x561a62959460)
language: eng
bibsort: BRUHNSRAMOESSAYSONTH2006
full_text_status: public
citation:   Bruhns, Ramona  (2006) Essays on the Economics of Child Labor and Fertility.  [Dissertation]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/6372/1/bruhns.pdf