Effectiveness versus efficiency: Growth-accelerating policies in a model of growth without scale effects. On the interplay between fertility and economic development

German Economic Review

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 297-316

  Büttner, Bettina ^a,b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Faculty of Economics and Management   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endogenous growth; Scale effects; Welfare

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENDOGENOUS GROWTH; FERTILITY; HUMAN CAPITAL; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SCALE EFFECT;

EID: 33746471637     PISSN: 14656485     EISSN: 14680475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0475.2006.00157.x     Document Type: Article

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