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The social side of early human capital formation: using a field experiment to estimate the causal impact of neighborhoods
List, John A.; Momeni, Fatemeh; Zenou, Yves - 2020
The behavioral revolution within economics has been largely driven by psychological insights, with the sister sciences playing a lesser role. This study leverages insights from sociology to explore the role of neighborhoods on human capital formation at an early age. We do so by estimating the...
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Human capital externalities and the urban wage premium : two literatures and their interrelations
Halfdanarson, Benedikt (contributor);  … - 2008
economics: Studies about localized human capital externalities (HCE) and about the urban wage premium (UWP). After surveying the … externalities ; urban wage premium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716532
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Is shale development drilling holes in the human capital pipeline?
Rickman, Dan S.; Wang, Hongbo; Winters, John V. - 2016
Using the Synthetic Control Method (SCM) and a novel method for measuring changes in educational attainment we examine the link between educational attainment and shale oil and gas extraction for the states of Montana, North Dakota, and West Virginia. The three states examined are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449861
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STEM graduates, human capital externalities, and wages in the US
Winters, John V. - 2013
Previous research suggests that the local stock of human capital creates positive externalities within local labor … availability has thus far prevented researchers from directly connecting STEM education to human capital externalities. This paper … positive wage externalities, but STEM graduates create much larger externalities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228785
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Identifying human capital externalities : theory with an application to US cities
Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - 2002
Identification of the strength of human capital externalities at the aggregate level is still not fully understood. The … existing method may yield positive or negative externalities even if wages reflect marginal social products. We propose an … approach that yields positive average human capital externalities if and only if the marginal social product of workers with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411270
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Human capital externalities with monopsonistic competition
Kaas, Leo (contributor) - 2008
This paper provides a novel microeconomic foundation for pecuniary human capital externalities in a labor market model …. -- Externalities ; human capital ; multiple equilibria …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759894
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Human capital spill-overs within the workplace
Battu, Harminder; Belfield, Clive R.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2001
An individual's human capital has a strong influence on earnings. Yet individual, worker-level estimations of earnings rarely include the characteristics of co-workers or detailed firm-level controls. In this paper, we use a unique matched worker-workplace dataset to estimate the effect on own...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405545
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Ethnic competition and specialization
Kahanec, Martin (contributor) - 2007
Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamental features of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model, this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition and social distances between ethnic groups engender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003586569
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What drives the urban wage premium? : evidence along the wage distribution
Matano, Alessia; Naticchioni, Paolo - 2013
This paper aims at disentangling the role played by different explanations on the urban wage premium along the wage distribution. We analyze the wage dynamics of migrants from lower to higher density areas in Italy, using quantile regressions and individual data. The results show that unskilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225806
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Human capital externalities and employment differences across metropolitan areas of the US
Winters, John V. - 2012
suggest that the local human capital level has positive externalities on the probability of labor force participation and …. -- employment ; labor force participation ; human capital externalities ; agglomeration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009627341