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Regional Policy Evaluation : Interactive Fixed Effects and Synthetic Controls

Gobillon, Laurent - 2013

unemployment of an enterprise zone policy implemented in France in the 1990s …

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Delayed Graduation and University Dropout : A Review of Theoretical Approaches

Aina, Carmen - 2019

university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does …. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two stages of the same decision repeated over the years to step aside or leave … bargaining approach, the decision to delay graduation or dropout from university is related to bargaining within the family …

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College Admission as a Screening and Sorting Device

Gandil, Mikkel; Leuven, Edwin - 2022

How can colleges find successful applicants? Criteria such as GPA, interviews, essays, and tests provide information about candidates, but which work and why? We shed light on these questions using unique data on the universe of objective and subjective rankings of all college applicants in...

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Untimely Destruction : Pestilence, War and Accumulation in the Long Run

Bell, Clive - 2019

This paper analyses the effects of disease and war on the accumulation of human and physical capital. We employ an overlapping-generations frame-work in which young adults, confronted with such hazards and motivated by old-age provision and altruism, make decisions about investments in schooling...

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Violence and Human Capital Investments

Koppensteiner, Martin - 2019

In this paper, we investigate the effect of student exposure to homicides on their educational performance and human capital investments. Combining a number of large georeferenced administrative datasets from Brazil, we estimate the effect of exposure to homicides in the public way on these...

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Offshoring, Endogenous Skill Decision, and Labor Market Outcomes

Agnese, Pablo - 2016

We discuss the effects of low-skill offshoring on the endogenous schooling decision of workers along with the potential changes in the labor market. The analysis is performed in the context of a matching model with different possible equilibria. Our exercise suggests that the endogenous...

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Women's Economic Capacity and Children's Human Capital Accumulation

de Hoop, Jacobus - 2017

Programs that increase the economic capacity of poor women can have cascading effects on children's participation in school and work that are theoretically undetermined. We present a simple model to describe the possible channels through which these programs may affect children's activities....

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

Attanasio, Orazio - 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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Education and Growth with Learning by Doing

Marconi, Gabriele - 2015

We develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations model which is based on the view that education makes workers more productive by increasing their ability to learn from work experience, rather than providing skills that directly increase productivity. One important implication of the...

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The Value of Redistribution : Natural Resources and the Formation of Human Capital Under Weak Institutions

Agüero, Jorge - 2017

We exploit time and spatial variation generated by the commodities boom to measure the effect of natural resources on human capital formation in Peru, a country with low governance indicators. Combining test scores from over two million students and district-level administrative data on mining...

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