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Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States
Hanushek, Eric A.; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307361
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Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform
Hanushek, Eric A.; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420726
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Declining Fertility and Economic Well-Being: Do Education and Health Ride to the Rescue?
Prettner, Klaus; Bloom, David E.; Strulik, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
It is widely argued that declining fertility slows the pace of economic growth in industrialized countries through its negative effect on labor supply. There are, however, theoretical arguments suggesting that the effect of falling fertility on effective labor supply can be offset by associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279243
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Declining fertility and economic well-being: Do education and health ride to the rescue?
Prettner, Klaus; Bloom, David E.; Strulik, Holger - 2012
It is widely argued that declining fertility slows the pace of economic growth in industrialized countries through its negative effect on labor supply. There are, however, theoretical arguments suggesting that the effect of falling fertility on effective labor supply can be offset by associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282140
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Identifying National Level Education Reforms in Developing Settings: An Application to Ethiopia
Chicoine, Luke E. - 2016
of the national reform on schooling. This paper provides a method with which these types of reforms can be identified in … 1990s reform in Ethiopia based around the release of the Education and Training Policy, which removed schooling fees from … grades one to ten. The model estimates that the reform led to an increase in schooling of at least 1.2 years, and provides …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494288
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More Schooling, Less Youth Crime? Learning from an Earthquake in Japan
Aoki, Yu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper aims to identify the causal effect of schooling on youth crime. To identify the causal effect, I use the … exogenous variation in schooling. Based on a comparison of the arrest rates between municipalities exposed to similar degrees of … expensive to reach a target level of social benefits by improving schooling than by strengthening the police force. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078418
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More Schooling, Less Youth Crime? Learning from an Earthquake in Japan
Aoki, Yu - 2014
This paper aims to identify the causal effect of schooling on youth crime. To identify the causal effect, I use the … exogenous variation in schooling. Based on a comparison of the arrest rates between municipalities exposed to similar degrees of … expensive to reach a target level of social benefits by improving schooling than by strengthening the police force. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468140
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Money Counts, but So Does Timing: Public Investment and Adult Competencies
Cathles, Alison; Ritzen, Jo - 2017
public investments in education received by these adults during their schooling. This paper confirms existing evidence that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653293
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Repeated Selection with Heterogenous Individuals and Relative Age Effects
Dawid, Herbert; Muehlheusser, Gerd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In contexts such as education and sports, skill-accumulation of individuals over time crucially depends on the amount of training they receive, which is often allocated on the basis of repeated selection. We analyze optimal selection policies in a model of endogenous skill formation where, apart...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541270
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Repeated selection with heterogenous individuals and relative age effects
Dawid, Herbert; Muehlheusser, Gerd - 2012
In contexts such as education and sports, skill-accumulation of individuals over time crucially depends on the amount of training they receive, which is often allocated on the basis of repeated selection. We analyze optimal selection policies in a model of endogenous skill formation where, apart...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282330