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The Impact of Migration Controls on Urban Fiscal Policies and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in China

Sieg, Holger; Yoon, Chamna; Zhang, Jipeng - 2022

Using newly available data, we document that internal migrants do not enjoy the same access to local public goods and services as city residents in China. We estimate a spatial overlapping generations model with heterogeneous households to quantify the impact of the Hukou system on urban fiscal...

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Human-Capital Externalities in China

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2018

This paper provides evidences of heterogeneous human-capital externality using CHIP 2002, 2007 and 2013 data from urban China. After instrumenting city-level education using the number of relocated university departments across cities in the 1950s, one year more city-level education increases...

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Ethnicity, Neighborhoods, and Human Capital Externalities

Borjas, George J. - 2021

The socioeconomic performance of today's workers depends not only on parental skills, but also on the average skills of the ethnic group in the parent's generation (or ethnic capital). This paper investigates the link between the ethnic externality and ethnic neighborhoods. The evidence...

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Human Capital Externalities in Cities

Moretti, Enrico - 2021

What is the effect of an increase in the overall level of human capital on the economy of a city? Although much is known about the private return to education, much less is known about the more important question of what happens to productivity, wages and land prices when the aggregate stock of...

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Job Hopping in Silicon Valley : Some Evidence Concerning the Micro-Foundations of a High Technology Cluster

Fallick, Bruce - 2014

In Silicon Valley's computer cluster, skilled employees are reported to move rapidly between competing firms. This job-hopping facilitates the reallocation of resources towards firms with superior innovations, but it also creates human capital externalities that reduce incentives to invest in...

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Peer Effects and Human Capital Accumulation : The Externalities of Add

Aizer, Anna - 2010

Recent work shows that peers affect student achievement, but the mechanisms are not well understood. I show that peer behavior is an important mechanism, perhaps more so than ability, by exploiting exogenous timing in diagnosis/treatment of ADD among peers that improves peer behavior while...

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Can Cash Transfers Help Households Escape an Inter-Generational Poverty Trap?

Araujo, Maria Caridad - 2016

Ecuador. Our analysis is based on two separate sources of data and two identification strategies. First, we extend the results … Ecuador is likely to be modest …

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The Bail-In Problem : Systematic Goals, Ad Hoc Means

Eichengreen, Barry; Rühl, Christof - 2021

, Ecuador, Romania and Ukraine. We show that because default and restructuring are so painful and costly, it is simply not time …

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Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor

Edmonds, Eric V. - 2014

Ecuador, where poor families are selected at random to receive a cash transfer that is equivalent to 7 percent of monthly … transfer is greater than the rise in schooling costs that comes with the end of primary school, but it is less than 20 percent … to use the lottery award to delay the child's entry into paid employment and protect the child's schooling status …

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On What States Do Prices Depend? Answers from Ecuador

Benedict, Craig - 2016

model to Ecuador to take advantage of inflation variations and the rich panel of monthly retail prices …

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