Does capital-embodied technological change play an important role in shaping labor market outcomes? To address this question, we develop a model with vintage capital and search-matching frictions where irreversible investment in new vintages of capital creates heterogeneity in productivity among both vacant and matched firms. We demonstrate that capital-embodied technological change reduces lab...

This article presents a biosocial model of fertility decline, which integrates ecological-economic and informational-cultural hypotheses of fertility transition in a unified theoretical framework. The model is then applied to empirical data collected among 500 women from San Borja, Bolivia, a population undergoing fertility transition. Using a combination of event history analysis, multiple reg...

In recent decades, attention to the role of actors in regional development has shifted from ‘formal and collective’ individuals change agency. doing so, mobilize their capacity act, which comprises total volume resources accumulated over course life. However, there is a lack studies focusing on how such then mobilized for Therefore, this study seeks reveal patterns selected agents have used age...