Human Capital and Economic Growth

Part I Human Capital in the Form of Education, Demographic Change, and Their Economic Implications.- Chapter 1: The Non-linearity in the Relationship Between Human Capital and Growth; Alessandra Pelloni, Thanasis Stengos, and Fabrizio Valenti.- Chapter 2: Optimal Life-Cycle Education Decisions of  Atomistic Individuals;Bernhard Skritek, Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, Arkadii V. Kryazhimskii, Klaus Prettner, Alexia Prskawetz,and Elena Rovenskayaa.- Chapter 3: Childlessness and Economic Development: A Survey; Thomas Baudin, David de la Croix, and Paula E. Gobbi.- Chapter 4: Demographic Change, Wage Inequality, and Technology; Demographic Change, Wage Inequality, and Technology; Oscar Afonso, Pedro Mazeda Gil, Pedro Cunha Neves, and Tiago Neves Sequeira.- Chapter 5: The Demographic Metabolism Model of Human Capital Formation; Erich Striessnig.- Part II: Part II Human Capitalin the Form of Health, Its Economic Implications, and the Economic Policies for a Healthier World.- Chapter 6: Health and Income: Theory and Evidence for OECD Countries; Alberto Bucci, Lorenzo Carbonari, and Giovanni Trovato.- Chapter 7: Health Spending, Education and Endogenous Demographics in an OLG Model; Giam Pietro Cipriani and Tamara Fioroni.- Chapter 8:Health and Knowledge Externalities: Implications for Growth and Public Policy; Pierre-Richard Agénor.- Chapter 9: Population and the Environment: The Role of Fertility, Education and Life Expectancy; Fabio Mariani, Agustín Pérez-Barahona, and Natacha Raffin.- Chapter 10: HIV/AIDS,Demography andDevelopment: Individual Choices Versus Public Policies in SSA; Luca Gori, Piero Manfredi, Mauro Sodini.

Alberto Bucci is Professor of Advanced Macroeconomics and Growth Theory at the University of Milan, Italy.

K laus Prettner is Professor of Economics at the University of Hohenheim, Germany.

Alexia Prskawetz is Professor of Mathematical Economics at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria.