Outline for Lectures on


Fertility, Education, Growth, and Sustainability

Naples, Palazzo Ricca, Istituto Banco di Napoli - Fondazione, 27-29 April 2011

David de la Croix
Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium


The three lectures will discuss the following issues:

Lecture 1 (April 27 - time 3 p.m.): Differential fertility and the dynamics of inequality
Lecture 2 (April 28 - time 10.30 a.m.): Education policy
Lecture 3 (April 29 - time 10.30 a.m): Sustainability

The afternoon of the 28th will be devoted to a Poster Session with the David de la Croix’s participation. For the call for paper with additional information and the deadline for application click here.

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Topics to be discussed include the following:

Lecture 1:Differential fertility and the dynamics of inequality


(April 27 - time 3 p.m.)

- Benchmark model
- Growth and inequality
- Forerunners in fertility decline

De la Croix D. and M. Doepke, Inequality and growth: why differential fertility matters, American Economic Review, 93, 1091-1113, 2003

Lecture 2:
Education policy


(April 28 - time 10.30 a.m.)

- Private vs public schools
- Education Politics
- Empirical Evidence

De la Croix D. and M. Doepke, Private versus public education when differential fertility matters, Journal of Development Economics, 73, 607-629, 2004

De la Croix D. and M. Doepke, To Segregate or to Integrate: Education Politics and Democracy, Review of Economic Studies, 76, 597-628, 2009

Lecture 3:
Sustainability


(April 29 - time 10.30 a.m)

- Production vs Reproduction, and Pollution Control
- Population policy
- Environmental collapse


De la Croix D.  and A. Gosseries, Population Policy through Tradable Procreation Entitlements, International Economic Review, 50, 507-542, 2009

De la Croix D. and D. Dottori, Easter Island Collapse: a Tale of Population Race, Journal of Economic Growth, 13, 27-55, 2008

 

 

 


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