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Bildungsinvestition 11,206 Human capital investment 11,197 Humankapital 4,096 Human capital 4,022 Theorie 3,462 Theory 3,454 Bildungsertrag 1,421 Returns to education 1,416 Bildungsniveau 1,264 Educational achievement 1,263 Kinder 1,212 Children 1,211 Wirtschaftswachstum 1,200 Economic growth 1,191 Bildungspolitik 1,038 Schätzung 1,004 Education policy 1,001 Estimation 1,000 USA 858 United States 852 Bildungsfinanzierung 789 Bildungsverhalten 786 Education finance 780 Educational behaviour 779 Qualifikation 775 Occupational qualification 769 Welt 725 World 725 Deutschland 633 Germany 616 Einkommensverteilung 595 Income distribution 592 Education 571 human capital 546 Eltern 540 Parents 537 Endogenes Wachstumsmodell 508 Endogenous growth model 508 Indien 503 India 496
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Book / Working Paper 6,953 Article 4,472 Journal 13 Database 1 Other 1
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Article in journal 3,607 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift 3,607 Graue Literatur 3,538 Non-commercial literature 3,538 Working Paper 3,221 Arbeitspapier 3,140 Aufsatz im Buch 695 Book section 695 Hochschulschrift 353 Thesis 264 Collection of articles of several authors 159 Sammelwerk 159 Amtsdruckschrift 96 Government document 96 Collection of articles written by one author 90 Sammlung 90 Konferenzschrift 77 Aufsatzsammlung 70 Bibliografie enthalten 50 Bibliography included 50 Conference paper 43 Konferenzbeitrag 43 Conference proceedings 42 Systematic review 32 Übersichtsarbeit 32 Advisory report 18 Gutachten 18 Statistik 18 Article 15 Rezension 14 Statistics 11 Forschungsbericht 8 Dissertation u.a. Prüfungsschriften 7 No longer published / No longer aquired 7 Case study 6 Fallstudie 6 Festschrift 6 Lehrbuch 5 Amtliche Publikation 3 Bericht 3
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English 10,442 German 573 Undetermined 118 French 108 Spanish 96 Italian 31 Russian 28 Polish 22 Portuguese 17 Hungarian 8 Dutch 7 Swedish 5 Danish 4 Czech 3 Finnish 3 Ukrainian 3 Norwegian 2 Slovak 2 Croatian 1 Lithuanian 1 Macedonian 1
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Heckman, James J. 160 Woessmann, Ludger 88 Lochner, Lance 73 Poutvaara, Panu 55 Stark, Oded 49 Attanasio, Orazio P. 48 Meghir, Costas 48 Patrinos, Harry Anthony 47 Jacobs, Bas 46 Pfeiffer, Friedhelm 44 De la Croix, David 42 Hanushek, Eric Alan 42 Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. 41 Behrman, Jere R. 40 Cunha, Flávio 38 Doepke, Matthias 38 Psacharopoulos, George 37 Brunello, Giorgio 36 Zilcha, Itzhak 36 Becker, Sascha O. 35 Konrad, Kai A. 33 Schindler, Dirk 33 Docquier, Frédéric 32 Schultz, T. Paul 32 Duleep, Harriet Orcutt 31 Carneiro, Pedro 30 Galor, Oded 30 Bucci, Alberto 29 Prettner, Klaus 29 Wiswall, Matthew 29 Booth, Alison L. 28 Gundlach, Erich 28 Ludwig, Alexander 28 Salvanes, Kjell G. 28 Nielsen, Helena Skyt 27 Taber, Christopher 27 Akresh, Richard 26 Lavy, Victor 26 Pestieau, Pierre 26 Schady, Norbert Rüdiger 26
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National Bureau of Economic Research 298 OECD 91 World Bank 34 World Bank Group 28 Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) 23 Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 19 Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung 17 Weltbank 12 European Commission / Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion 10 CESifo 9 European Commission / Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture 8 ICT 8 Asian Development Bank 7 Centre for Educational Research and Innovation 6 Foerder Institute for Economic Research <Tēl-Āvîv> 6 Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 6 Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung 5 Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi Quantitativi (DEMM), Università degli Studi di Milano 5 Edward Elgar Publishing 5 European Commission / Joint Research Centre 5 European Expert Network on Economics of Education (EENEE) 5 International Monetary Fund 5 International Monetary Fund (IMF) 5 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 5 Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) 4 Department of Economics, College of William & Mary 4 European Commission / Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs 4 Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz 4 University of Strathclyde / Department of Economics 4 Université catholique de Louvain / Institut de recherches économiques et sociales <1941-1960> 4 World Institute for Development Economics Research 4 Australian National University / Centre for Economic Policy Research 3 C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers 3 Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia <Rio de Janeiro> 3 Internationales Arbeitsamt 3 Kansantaloustieteen Laitos <Tampere> 3 Niedersächsisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung 3 OECD / Development Centre 3 Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research 3 University of British Columbia / Department of Economics 3
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Discussion paper series / IZA 424 NBER working paper series 295 Working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. 249 NBER Working Paper 245 IZA Discussion Paper 229 CESifo working papers 171 Working paper 120 Economics of education review 116 Discussion paper / Centre for Economic Policy Research 103 Journal of development economics 72 CESifo Working Paper Series 70 Policy research working paper : WPS 65 IZA Discussion Papers 62 Labour economics : official journal of the European Association of Labour Economists 61 Discussion paper 58 Applied economics 52 World Bank E-Library Archive 50 World development : the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development 49 Journal of human resources : JHR 47 Discussion papers / CEPR 45 Journal of public economics 44 Economic modelling 43 The American economic review 43 Journal of population economics 42 Discussion paper / Tinbergen Institute 41 Journal of political economy 38 Education economics 37 World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 36 CESifo Working Paper 35 Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 35 Working paper series 35 CESifo working papers : the international platform of Ludwig-Maximilians University's Center for Economic Studies and the Ifo Institute 34 Economics letters 34 European economic review : EER 34 GLO discussion paper 34 The economic journal : the journal of the Royal Economic Society 34 Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 33 Discussion paper series 31 Review of economic dynamics 31 Policy Research Working Paper 29
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ECONIS (ZBW) 11,178 RePEc 145 EconStor 97 USB Cologne (EcoSocSci) 15 Other ZBW resources 3 BASE 2
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A historical note on the assimilation rates of foreign-born men and women in the U.S.
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Dowhan, Dan; Liu, Xingfei; … - 2025
The 1924 Immigration Act excluded immigrants from economically developing countries to the point of their near total exclusion. Forty years later, the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act eliminated most discriminatory county-of-origin barriers. America's doors opened and immigration from...
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A historical note on the assimilation rates of foreign-born men and women in the U.S.
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Dowhan, Dan; Liu, Xingfei; … - 2025
Fueling debates about the "quality" of immigrants from economically developing countries, empirical studies based on a well-respected methodology conclude that post-1965 immigrant men have low initial earnings and sluggish earnings growth. This methodology is based on flawed assumptions (Duleep,...
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Lifecycle wages and human capital investments : selection and missing data
Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Roux, Sébastien - 2025
We derive wage equations with individual specific coefficients from a structural model of human capital investment over the life cycle. This model allows for interruptions in labour market participation and deals with missing data and attrition problems. We propose a new framework that deals...
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When managers choose : gender disparities in employer training provision
Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Huber, Katrin; … - 2025
We examine how gender shapes managers' decisions regarding on-the-job training using a discrete choice experiment embedded in a representative survey of German firms. While previous research has focused on employees' demand for it, we make a contribution by studying firms' supply of training. In...
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When managers choose: gender disparities in employer training provision
Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Huber, Katrin; … - 2025
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Non-Compete Agreements : human capital investments or compensated wages?
Kodama, Naomi; Kambayashi, Ryo; Izumi, Atsuko - 2025
Non-Compete Agreements (NCAs) restrict workers from joining or forming rival companies, which impacts labor market dynamics. Theoretical perspectives on NCAs are varied: they can lead to increased employer investment and higher wages by reducing labor turnover, or they might simply raise wages...
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When managers choose : gender disparities in employer training provision
Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Huber, Katrin; … - 2025
We examine how gender shapes managers’ decisions regarding on-the-job training using a discrete choice experiment embedded in a representative survey of German firms. While previous research on training has focused on employees’ demand for it, we make a contribution by studying firms’...
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Parental and school responses to student performance : evidence from school entry rules
Fredriksson, Peter; Öckert, Björn; Tilley, J. Lucas - 2024
We examine whether parental and school investments reinforce or compensate for student performance. Our analysis exploits school-starting-age rules in 34 countries, capturing achievement variation that arises because younger children typically underperform their older peers. Parents respond to...
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Demography, human capital investment, and lifetime earnings for women and men
Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Khamis, Melanie; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2024
Can the demographic trends of increased life expectancy and decreasing birth rates, along with the labor market patterns of returns to human capital investment and changes in real hourly earnings, account for changes in women's and men's lifetime earnings? Using a Vector Error Correction Model...
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Social norms and the impact of early life events on gender inequality
Luo, Wei; Huang, Wei; Park, Albert - 2024
We study the influence of social norms in determining the impact of early life exposure to the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961 on gender inequality. We model how social norms interact with adverse shocks to affect male and female survival chances and influence subsequent human capital...
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Declining fertility, human capital investment, and economic sustainability
Myrskylä, Mikko; Hellstrand, Julia; Lappo, Sampo; … - 2024
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Demography, human capital investment, and lifetime earnings for women and men
Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Khamis, Melanie; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2024
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Droughts: learning continuity and recovery
Chatterjee, Somdeep; Katewa, Neeraj - 2024
In this paper, we study the nuanced relationship between drought, academic performance, and the efficacy of preventive measures, focusing on two drought-prone regions from the states of Maharashtra and Karnataka in India. Utilizing an event study framework relying on difference-in-differences...
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A historical note on the assimilation rates of foreign-born women in the U.S.
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Dowhan, Dan; Liu, Xingfei - 2023
Using historical, longitudinal data on individuals, we track the earnings of immigrant and U.S.-born women. Following individuals, instead of synthetic cohorts, avoids biases in earnings-growth estimates caused by compositional changes in the cohorts that are followed. The historical data...
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Changing tracks : human capital investment after loss of ability
Humlum, Anders; Munch, Jakob Roland; Plato, Pernille - 2023
We provide the first evidence on how workers invest in human capital after losing ability. Using quasi-random work accidents in Danish administrative data, we find that workers enroll in bachelor's programs after physical injuries, pursuing degrees that build on their work experiences and...
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Making sense of the shapes : what do we know about literacy learning in adulthood?
Aker, Jenny C.; Berry, James; Sawyer, Melita - 2023
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Higher education opportunity and the choice of vocational vs. academic high school
Xing, Chunbing; Sun, Yan; Luo, Chuliang - 2023
This research uses CHIP data of 2018 to examine the impact of higher education opportunities on the middle school graduates' choice between academic and vocational high schools. The findings indicate that a higher university quota at the provincial level increases the likelihood of middle school...
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Non-compete Agreements: Human Capital Investments or Compensated Wages?
Kodama, Naomi; Kambayashi, Ryo; Izumi, Atsuko - 2025
Non-Compete Agreements (NCAs) restrict workers from joining or forming rival companies, which impacts labor market dynamics. Theoretical perspectives on NCAs are varied: they can lead to increased employer investment and higher wages by reducing labor turnover, or they might simply raise wages...
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A Historical Note on the Assimilation Rates of Foreign-Born Men and Women in the U.S.
Duleep, Harriet; Dowhan, Dan; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark; … - 2025
The 1924 Immigration Act excluded immigrants from economically developing countries to the point of their near total exclusion. Forty years later, the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act eliminated most discriminatory county-of-origin barriers. America's doors opened and immigration from...
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A Historical Note on the Assimilation Rates of Foreign-Born Men and Women in the U.S.
Duleep, Harriet; Dowhan, Daniel J.; Liu, Xingfei; … - 2025
Fueling debates about the "quality" of immigrants from economically developing countries, empirical studies based on a well-respected methodology conclude that post-1965 immigrant men have low initial earnings and sluggish earnings growth. This methodology is based on flawed assumptions (Duleep,...
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Lifecycle Wages and Human Capital Investments: Selection and Missing Data
Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Roux, Sébastien - 2025
We derive wage equations with individual specific coefficients from a structural model of human capital investment over the life cycle. This model allows for interruptions in labour market participation and deals with missing data and attrition problems. We propose a new framework that deals...
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When Managers Choose: Gender Disparities in Employer Training Provision
Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Huber, Katrin; … - 2025
We examine how gender shapes managers' decisions regarding on-the-job training using a discrete choice experiment embedded in a representative survey of German firms. While previous research has focused on employees' demand for it, we make a contribution by studying firms' supply of training. In...
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Self-selection on human capital for Ukrainian refugees in Belgium
Berlinschi, Ruxanda; Verhaest, Dieter; Poelmans, Eline; … - 2025
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Endogenous depopulation and economic growth
Bucci, Alberto; Prettner, Klaus - 2025
Fertility rates have declined dramatically across almost all highincome countries over the past decades. This has raised concerns about future economic prospects. Indeed, fully- and semi-endogenous growth models imply that a shrinking workforce would lead to declining income growth and perhaps...
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Self-selection on human capital for Ukrainian refugees in Belgium
Berlinschi, Ruxanda; Verhaest, Dieter; Poelmans, Eline; … - 2025
This study documents self-selection on human capital for Ukrainian refugees. We compare the socio-demographic characteristics of a representative sample of Ukrainian refugees who registered in Belgium in the fall of 2022 with those of the Ukrainian population before the war. Contrarily to...
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Long-term effects of phonics approaches to the development of reading skills
Elbro, Carsten; Kristensen, Nicolai; Skov, Peter Rohde - 2025
Many studies have documented that a phonics approach is an essential component in the teaching of reading for beginning readers, especially for students at risk of reading disabilities. We study whether phonics approaches, as indicated by the choice of basal readers (materials for the initial...
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Research on the impacts and mechanisms of digital strategy on corporate innovation investment
Yang, Dong; Shen, Huayu - In: Journal of open innovation : technology, market, and … 11 (2025) 1, pp. 1-17
This paper empirically examines the impacts and underlying mechanisms of a digital strategy, along with its four constituent indicators, on enterprise innovation investment. Utilizing a vast sample of companies listed on Chinese stock markets spanning from 2007 to 2022, the study constructs...
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Life insurance, natural disasters, and human capital investment : a case of early 20th century Japan
Okazaki, Tetsuji; Okubo, Toshihiro - 2025
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Weathering the storm : unravelling the influence of climate change risk exposure on firms' human capital investment
Cao, Zhangfan; Chen, Steven Xianglong; Lee, Edward; … - In: British journal of management 36 (2025) 2, pp. 633-649
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Improving Educational Outcomes for Children in Low-Income Countries
De Simone, Martin Elias - 2025
The report is organized into six main sections. The first section provides an overview of the context in Edo. Section two summarized the central interventions part of EdoBESST and how they are based on the available evidence. Section three assesses the impact of interventions in terms of outputs...
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Guinea-Bissau Human Capital Review
World Bank - 2025
This report presents the findings of a study to analyze Guinea-Bissau's HCI indicators and its human capital policies across three sectors - health, education, and social protection. The report highlights a deep analysis of sociodemographic variables such as age, sex, income, and geographical...
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Gender gaps in early childhood development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Berlinski, Samuel G.; Sanz de Galdeano, Anna; … - 2025
We examine gender gaps in early childhood cognitive and social-behavioral skills across several Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. Our study complements previous research focused on older children by analyzing the preschool period, a critical stage for lifelong human capital...
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Lifecycle wages and human capital investments : selection and missing data
Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Roux, Sébastien - 2025
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The right timing matters : sensitive periods in the formation of socio-emotional skills
Breitkopf, Laura; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Kamhöfer, … - 2025
Identifying sensitive periods in which the returns to investments into skills are especially high is challenging, but crucial for an effective and efficient timing of parental or public investments aimed at fostering children’s skills. We can detect sensitive periods with a novel design by...
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Does the timing of productivity shocks in childhood affect educational attainment?
Noritomo, Yuma - 2025
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Paths to integration : earnings, skill investments, and outmigration across immigrant admission categories
Pesola, Hanna; Sarvimäki, Matti; Virkola, Tuomo - 2025
We document substantial heterogeneity in labor market integration, skill investments, and outmigration across immigrant admission categories. Using newly available data on residence permits in Finland, we establish four facts. First, there are large initial differences in employment and earnings...
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Impact of USAID withdrawal on global education and skills development : official development assistance analysis in education and skills development
Walls, Elena (contributor) - European Training Foundation - 2025
The dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has created an unprecedented crisis in global education and skills development, with far-reaching consequences for access, equity, and the quality of learning worldwide. This report, commissioned by the European...
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Multiple pathways to financial literacy: evidence on the impact of practical applications of financial tasks and analytical learning
Brunner, Laura; Davoli, Maddalena; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2025
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A bibliometric analysis of the vocational education and training (VET) literature
Karantali, Maria; Panagiōtidēs, Theodōros - In: Economics and Business Letters : EBL 14 (2025) 1, pp. 35-50
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Skills and human capital in the labor market
Deming, David J.; Silliman, Mikko - 2025
This paper synthesizes the economics literature on skills and human capital, with a particular focus on higher-order capacities like social and decision-making skills. We review the empirical evidence on returns to human capital from both a micro and macro perspective, as well as the evidence on...
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Human capital in a time of low real rates
Khorrami, Paymon; Sakong, Jung - 2025
We argue that a long-term low real rate environment can increase labor income inequality, amplify the emergence of the working rich, and reduce intergenerational mobility. We provide a simple model with endogenous human capital accumulation and credit constraints to demonstrate this causal link....
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Skills pay dividends : accounting for human capital : how to increase employer investment in training and make it more visible in company accounts : final study report
European Commission / Directorate-General for …; … - 2025
The study explores ways to enhance the visibility of companies' investments in employee training, with the aim of recognising human capital as a value-creating resource, encouraging private sector investment in training and ultimately reducing skills shortages. Currently, only a limited number...
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Education expenditures and growth : Is R&D the link?
Diakodimitriou, Danai; Tsioutsios, Alexandros; … - In: Journal of policy modeling : JPMOD ; a social science … 47 (2025) 2, pp. 322-337
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Causal returns to education
Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Psacharopoulos, George - 2025
Using 182 estimates from 140 studies in 55 countries, this paper compares ordinary least squares (OLS) and instrumental variables (IV) estimates of the private returns to schooling. IV returns average 9.7 percent - 38 percent higher than OLS - and exceed OLS in nearly 80 percent of cases, with...
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No baby cries and silent neighbourhood : the effect of human capital investment on fertility
An, Woo Hyeok; Cho, Jae Il - In: Applied economics letters 32 (2025) 11, pp. 1553-1557
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Inequality of opportunity and fertility intentions
Ma, Bianjing; Wu, Jiahao; Yu, Yu - In: China economic quarterly international : CEQI 5 (2025) 2, pp. 102-119
Today's parents prioritize their children's future opportunities and well-being over the costs and benefits of child-rearing. Inequality of opportunity (IO) worsens children's developmental prospects and reduces fertility intentions. Using nationally representative data from China, we show that...
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Does education improve financial outcomes? : evidence from stock market and retirement accounts in Türkiye
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Ersan, Yasar - 2025
We examine the causal effect of education on financial outcomes related to stock markets and retirement savings, leveraging a major compulsory school reform and a unique data set covering the universe of investors in Türkiye. The estimates show no effects on participation rates, portfolio...
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The effects of investment in education and training on productivity growth in the European Union
Siedschlag, Iulia; Durán, Juan David - 2025
This paper investigates the impact of on-the-job training on labour productivity, focusing on both the direct effects of training capital accumulation and its complementarity with other intangible capital assets. While previous research has highlighted the positive role of workplace training in...
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On expanding public funding of selective colleges
Hendricks, Lutz; Koreshkova, Tatyana; Leukhina, Oksana - 2025
As college attainment expanded in the U.S., the fraction of public funds allocated to selective colleges and universities declined. Does this make sense from an efficiency standpoint, given that the majority of college entrants face the highest financial returns at selective colleges? Should the...
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Life insurance, natural disasters, and human capital investment : a case of early 20th century Japan
Okazaki, Tetsuji; Okubo, Toshihiro; Strobl, Eric - 2025
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