Screening and Economic Growth

作者: Bernhard Eckwert , Itzhak Zilcha

DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-803190-2.00004-2

关键词: Human capitalInnate intelligenceRisk sharingEducational investmentEconomicsProcess (engineering)WelfareOverlapping generations modelPublic economicsPublic information

摘要: We analyze an OLG model where agents differ by their random innate abilities. Young are screened for abilities and the screening signals represent public information that affects educational investment decisions. find in presence of risk sharing markets better may be harmful if highly averse. Moreover, conditions derived under which enhances or obstructs human capital accumulation process.

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