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As pointed out by Correia, Neves, and Rebelo (1995), the ability of this class of models to mimic key international indicators of a small open economy depends crucially on adopting the period utility function, postulated by Greenwood, Hercowitz, and Huffman (GHH) (1988), whereby there is no income effect associated with the household's labor supply decision and the representative household's intertemporal elasticity of substitution in hours worked (or leisure) is zero.
It could arise if caring for children is a "luxury good; if more educated parents have a lower elasticity of substitution between own and market-based child care (or just a higher relative preference for time spent with their children), or if the returns to investing in the children of more educated parents are relatively higher.
Factor demand comes from a very general specification of the production function and from weak assumptions, mainly the local approximation of the production function using a constant elasticity of substitution (CES) and constant returns to scale.
 
 
 
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