The basic hypothesis is that, while the total supply of entrepreneurs varies anlong societies, the productive contribution of the society's entrepreneurial activities varies much more because of their allocation between productive activities such as innovation and largely unproductive

capacity for language can account for qualitative and quantitative differences among college-age adults in several aspects of language comprehension. One aspect is syntactic modularity: The larger capacity of some individuals permits interaction among syntactic and pragmatic information, so

durable goods. In such an economy, interest rates are determined by consumption loans between individuals of different ages. By introducing production employing a durable capital good into this model, one can examine the case where individuals provide for their retirement years by lending to entrepreneurs

Abstract: We use the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data collected in Indian states in 1992 and 1993 to estimate the relationship between household wealth and the probability a child (aged 6 to 14) is enrolled in school. A methodological difficulty to overcome is that the NFHS, modeled

the products of early processing may no longer be available when later processing is complete (simultaneity). Several types of evidence, such as the discovery of con-siderable shared age-related variance across various measures of speed and large attenuation of the age-related influences on cognitive measures

1990s were extremely good years for the U.S. economy. Indeed, Robert M. Solow has now declared obsolete his 1987 paradox that “we can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics” (Uchitelle, 2000). However, room remains for a degree of skepticism.

seeks to understand the role of parental characteristics and the early home environment in producing cognitive skills. The education production function (EPF) hranch of the literature examines the productivity relationship between schooling inputs and test score outcomes for school-age children.

# The Author(s) 2012. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract The public discourse on productive aging as a research and policy initiative has just begun in greater China. Two conferences in Mainland China in 2009 and 2011 and subsequent conferences in Taiwan

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This article provides an overview of some of the key issues concerning the future of pensions and retirement in Europe. The main theme of the article is that health status has a critical bearing on the future of both pensions and retirement. If ageing populations are unhealthy, not only