Robert Tamura
Biographic Data
| ID | 5868747 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Tamura |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Tamura |
| SIGNATURE | TAMURA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clemson University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 257 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Equilibrium and -efficient fertility with increasing returns to population and endogenous mortality
A general equilibrium model that characterizes the gap between optimal and equilibrium fertility and investment in human capital is developed. The aggregate production function exhibits increasing returns to population arising from specialization, but households face a quantity–quality trade-off when choosing their fertility and how much education these children receive. We show that equilibrium fertility is too low and investment per child is to…
Directed technological change & cross-country income differences
Economic growth in the long run
Human accomplishment
Human capital and economic development
Teachers, Growth, and Convergence
This paper examines the role of individual instruction and teacher quality in determining economic growth and convergence across school districts. The model shows that if teacher quality is more important for human capital accumulation than individual instruction, human capital convergence will occur between two school districts. This convergence arises because a poor school district hires relatively better teachers but uses them in larger classe…
Income Convergence in an Endogeneous Growth Model
An endogenous growth model is developed that produces convergence in per capita income and growth rates of output. Agents have identical preferences and access to identical technologies of production and investment, but differing levels of initial human capital. A spillover effect of human capital in the investment technology provides below-average human capital agents with a higher rate of return on investment than above-average human capital ag…
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth
Our analysis of growth assumes endogenous fertility and a rising rate of return on human capital as the stock of human capital increases. When human capital is abundant, rates of return on human capital investments are high relative to rates of return on children, whereas when human capital is scarce, rates of return on human capital are low relative to those on children. As a result, societies with limited human capital choose large families and…
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth
Our analysis of growth assumes endogenous fertility and a rising rate of return on human capital as the stock of human capital increases. When human capital is abundant, rates of return on human capital investments are high relative to rates of return on children, whereas when human capital is scarce, rates of return on human capital are low relative to those on children. As a result, societies with limited human capital choose large families and…
Human capital and economic development
Income Convergence in an Endogeneous Growth Model
An endogenous growth model is developed that produces convergence in per capita income and growth rates of output. Agents have identical preferences and access to identical technologies of production and investment, but differing levels of initial human capital. A spillover effect of human capital in the investment technology provides below-average human capital agents with a higher rate of return on investment than above-average human capital ag…
Teachers, Growth, and Convergence
This paper examines the role of individual instruction and teacher quality in determining economic growth and convergence across school districts. The model shows that if teacher quality is more important for human capital accumulation than individual instruction, human capital convergence will occur between two school districts. This convergence arises because a poor school district hires relatively better teachers but uses them in larger classe…
Economic growth in the long run
Directed technological change & cross-country income differences
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth
Our analysis of growth assumes endogenous fertility and a rising rate of return on human capital as the stock of human capital increases. When human capital is abundant, rates of return on human capital investments are high relative to rates of return on children, whereas when human capital is scarce, rates of return on human capital are low relative to those on children. As a result, societies with limited human capital choose large families and…
Income Convergence in an Endogeneous Growth Model
An endogenous growth model is developed that produces convergence in per capita income and growth rates of output. Agents have identical preferences and access to identical technologies of production and investment, but differing levels of initial human capital. A spillover effect of human capital in the investment technology provides below-average human capital agents with a higher rate of return on investment than above-average human capital ag…
Teachers, Growth, and Convergence
This paper examines the role of individual instruction and teacher quality in determining economic growth and convergence across school districts. The model shows that if teacher quality is more important for human capital accumulation than individual instruction, human capital convergence will occur between two school districts. This convergence arises because a poor school district hires relatively better teachers but uses them in larger classe…
Human capital and economic development
Human accomplishment
Economic growth in the long run
Directed technological change & cross-country income differences
Equilibrium and -efficient fertility with increasing returns to population and endogenous mortality
A general equilibrium model that characterizes the gap between optimal and equilibrium fertility and investment in human capital is developed. The aggregate production function exhibits increasing returns to population arising from specialization, but households face a quantity–quality trade-off when choosing their fertility and how much education these children receive. We show that equilibrium fertility is too low and investment per child is to…
Economic Growth and Productivity (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (6 works) · Human capital (6 works) · Labour economics (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Microeconomics (4 works) · Population (4 works) · Demography (3 works)