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Household Migration and Child Educational Attainment: The Case of Uganda

Ferrone, Lucia; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

beneficial, since it may contribute to matching the demand and supply of schooling. The absence of adults, instead, has …

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Empowering Women: The Effect of Schooling on Young Women's Knowledge and Use of Contraception

Andalón, Mabel; Williams, Jenny; Grossman, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a … to identify the causal effect of schooling, we exploit temporal and geographic variation in the number of lower secondary … females' schooling beyond 6th grade increases their knowledge of contraception during their reproductive years and increases …

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Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women

Heath, Rachel; Mobarak, A. Mushfiq - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

educational attainment compared to a large-scale government conditional cash transfer program to encourage female schooling. …

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The Production and Stock of College Graduates for U.S. States

Winters, John V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The stock of human capital in an area is important for regional economic growth and development. However, highly educated workers are often quite mobile and there is a concern that public investments in college graduates may not benefit the state if the college graduates leave the state after...

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Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Colombia

Attanasio, Orazio; Cattan, Sarah; Fitzsimons, Emla; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children. We estimate production functions for cognitive and socio-emotional skills as a function of...

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Foreign and Native-Born STEM Graduates and Innovation Intensity in the United States

Winters, John V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper examines the effects of foreign- and native-born STEM graduates and non-STEM graduates on patent intensity in U.S. metropolitan areas. I find that both native and foreign-born STEM graduates significantly increase metropolitan area patent intensity, but college graduates in non-STEM...

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Does Human Capital Endowment of FDI Recipient Countries Really Matter? Evidence from Cross-Country Firm Level Data

Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Dimova, Ralitza - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The stylized literature on foreign direct investment suggests that developing countries should invest in the human capital of their labour force in order to attract foreign direct investment. However, if educational quality in developing country is uncertain such that formal education is a noisy...

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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...

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Acquiring Human Capital through the Generations by Migration

Smith, James P.; Delaney, Liam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

paper, we derive a new and conceptual more appropriate measure of the generational gains in schooling attributable to …

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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...

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