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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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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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Migration, Remittances and Human Capital Investment in Kenya

Hines, Annie Laurie - 2018

remittances a household receives and the amount of expenditures allocated to education (for all levels of education). We consider …

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Assessing the Long-Term Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers on Human Capital : Evidence from Colombia

Baez, Javier E. - 2011

Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) are programs under which poor families get a stipend provided they keep their children in school and take them for health checks. While there is significant evidence showing that they have positive impacts on school participation, little is known about their...

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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China

Heckman, James J. - 2012

education characteristic of the pre-reform era has given rise to substantial inequality in access to higher levels of education …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …

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Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation

Galor, Oded - 2020

This research establishes the influence of linguistic traits on human behavior. Exploiting variations in the languages spoken by children of migrants with identical ancestral countries of origin, the analysis indicates that the presence of periphrastic future tense, and its association with...

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Violence and Human Capital Investments

Koppensteiner, Martin - 2019

data on student- and parent-reported aspirations and attitudes towards education allow us to explore the channels …

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The Impact of Hiv/Aids on Human Capital Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa : New Evidence

Chicoine, Luke E. - 2020

The risk of AIDS-related mortality increased dramatically throughout the 1990s. This paper updates previous work by Fortson (2011) to examine the impact of mortality risk on human capital investment during the deadliest period of the pandemic. We combine Demographic Health Survey data from 30...

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International Education and Economic Growth

Bergerhoff, Jan - 2013

highly educated students for their labour force, they face the additional cost of providing the education. In much of … countries benefit from educating international students. We derive conditions under which international education has a positive … extra growth of 0.049 percentage points. The benefits from international education increase when a country tunes its …

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Household Shocks and Education Investment in Madagascar

Glick, Peter; Sahn, David E.; Walker, Thomas - 2015

This paper measured the extent to which households in Madagascar adjust children’s school attendance in order to cope with exogenous shocks to household income, assets and labour supply. Our analysis was based on a unique data set with 10 years of recall data on school attendance and household...

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