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Life expectancy at birth and lifetime education and earnings
Hoque, Mohammad Mainul; King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro, … - 2020
paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of … schooling for every 8.3 years of increased life expectancy at birth. Lifetime earnings increase by 1.7 percent per year of added …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388740
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Fiscal Policy and Educational Attainment in the United States : A Generational Accounting Perspective
Chojnicki, Xavier; Docquier, Frédéric - 2004
In this paper, we investigate the consequences of the rise in educational attainment on the US generational accounts. We build on the 1995 accounts of Gokhale et al. (1999) and disaggregate them per schooling level. We show that low skill newborns are characterized by a negative generational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261806
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Overeducation and Skill Endowments The Role of School Achievement and Vocational Training Quality
Büchel, Felix; Pollmann-Schult, Matthias - 2001
traditional skill measures such as experience, tenure, on-the-job-training, and further education. In sum, our results clearly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262544
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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001
Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262608
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Returns to apprenticeship training in Austria: evidence from failed firms
Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2007
Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. There is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and there might be an important element of selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268368
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Does education matter for economic growth?
Delgado, Michael S.; Henderson, Daniel J.; Parmeter, … - 2012
Empirical growth regressions typically include mean years of schooling as a proxy for human capital. However, empirical research often finds that the sign and significance of schooling depends on the sample of observations or the specification of the model. We use a nonparametric local-linear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291365
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Human capital and macro-economic development : a review of the evidence
Rossi, Federico - 2018
This paper reviews the evidence on the importance of human capital for macro-economic development. Through the lens of a simple aggregate production function, human capital might increase output per capita by directly entering in the production process, incentivising the accumulation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002419
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Mama knows (and does) best : maternal schooling opportunities and child development in Indonesia
Hasan, Amer; Nakajima, Nozomi; Rangel, Marcos A. - 2020
This paper leverages quasi-experimental variation in increased access to basic formal education, introduced by a large-scale school construction program in Indonesia in the 1970s, to quantify the benefits to the children of women targeted by the program. Novel and rich data allow the analysis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297484
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The duration of paid parental leave and children's scholastic performance
Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009
parental earnings or fathers' education, or relative to other predictors of child performance. We find no effects on … reform had no effect on children's scholastic performance. However, we do find positive effects for children of well … intermediate outcomes such as mothers' subsequent earnings, child health, parental fertility, divorce rates, or the mothers' mental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268959
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Following in your parents' footsteps? Empirical analysis of matched parent-offspring test scores
Brown, Sarah; McIntosh, Steven; Taylor, Karl - 2009
In this paper, we explore whether an intergenerational relationship exists between the reading and mathematics test scores, taken at age 7, of a cohort of individuals born in 1958 and the equivalent test scores of their offspring measured in 1991. Our results suggest that how the parent performs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268975