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Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states

Hanushek, Eric Alan; 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...

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Economic gains for US states from educational reform

Hanushek, Eric Alan; 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...

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Human capital and the economic convergence mechanism : evidence from China

Zhang, Xiaboei; Li, Haizheng; Wang, Xiaojun; Fleisher, … - 2019

We examine the mechanism by which human capital affects economic growth and convergence, using provincial level panel data from China. We specify alternative measures of human capital and apply them to an enhanced growth model which we estimate parametrically, nonparametrically, and with a...

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Opportunity and inequality across generations

Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2022

We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....

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Why do we ignore the risk in schooling decisions?

Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2014

While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and …

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The complementarity of language and other human capital : immigrant earnings in Canada

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … complementarity between language skills and both schooling and preimmigration experience. That is, greater proficiency in the official … languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language proficiency and …

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Changes across cohorts in wage returns to schooling and early work experiences

Ashworth, Jared; Hotz, Vincent Joseph; Maurel, Arnaud; … - 2017

This paper investigates the wage returns to schooling and actual early work experiences, and how these returns have … changed over the past twenty years. Using the NLSY surveys, we develop and estimate a dynamic model of the joint schooling and …

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Sleepwalking through school : new evidence on sleep and academic performance

Wang, Kurt; Sabia, Joseph J.; Cesur, Resul - 2016

schooling benefits. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study examines the relationship …

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Human capital investment under exit options : evidence from a natural quasi-experiment

Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019

Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...

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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023

return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage …) estimates internal rates of return from high school and college/university schooling, primarily for native-born white men, but … also for other demographic groups. The first regression-based approach is the development of the schooling …

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