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Restuccia, Diego - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2011

By international standards, gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in Latin America is low: around one fourth of that of the United States. Moreover, in the last five decades, Latin America has failed to catch-up in wealth to the level of the United States while other countries at similar or...

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Policy Distortions and Aggregate Productivity with Heterogeneous Plants

Restuccia, Diego; Rogerson, Richard - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2007

rely on aggregate capital accumulation or aggregate relative price differences. More generally, the model can be used to … generate differences in capital accumulation, relative prices, and measured TFP. …

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What determines adult cognitive skills? Influences of pre-school, school, and post-school experiences in Guatemala

Behrman, Jere R.; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John A.; … - In: Latin American Economic Review 23 (2014) 1, pp. 1-32

Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on … control for endogeneity; and (4) point to limitations in using adult school attainment alone to represent human capital. …

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Human capital investment and the gender division of labor in a brawn-based economy

Pitt, Mark M.; Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Hassan, Nazmul - 2010

levels and returns to human capital investments. These include the higher return to and level of schooling, the small effect …We use a model of human capital investment and activity choice to explain facts describing gender differentials in the … of healthiness on wages, and the large effect of healthiness on schooling for females relative to males. The model …

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How Important is Human Capital? A Quantitative Theory Assessment of World Income Inequality

Erosa, Andres; Koreshkova, Tatyana; Restuccia, Diego - Department of Economics, Concordia University - 2009

We develop a quantitative theory of human capital investments in order to evaluate the magnitude of cross … heterogeneous-agent economy with cross-sectional variation in ability, schooling, and expenditures on schooling quality. By … across countries, as documented in Hsieh and Klenow (2007). The parameters governing human capital production and random …

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Human Capital Investment and the Gender Division of Labor

Pitt, Mark M.; Rosenzweig, Mark; Hassan, Nazmul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2010

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What determines adult cognitive skills? : influences of pre-school, school, and post-school experiences in Guatemala

Behrman, Jere R.; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John A.; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 23 (2014), pp. 1-32

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Sectoral decomposition of convergence in labor productivity: A re-examination from a new dataset

Dieppe, Alistair; Matsuoka, Hideaki - 2022

This paper investigates how the sector-specific source or the changing sectoral composition of labor productivity has contributed to Ø-convergence, using a newly constructed eightsector database. The main findings are twofold. First, both within and sectoral reallocation have become important...

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The Role of the Structural Transformation in Aggregate Productivity

Duarte, Margarida; Restuccia, Diego - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2009

We investigate the role of sectoral differences in labor productivity in explaining the process of structural transformation - the secular reallocation of labor across sectors - and the time path of aggregate productivity across countries. Using a simple model of the structural transformation...

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The Role of the Structural Transformation in Aggregate Productivity

Duarte, Margarida; Restuccia, Diego - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2007

We investigate the role of sectoral differences in labor productivity and the process of structural transformation (the secular reallocation of labor across sectors) in accounting for the time path of aggregate productivity across countries. Using a simple model of the structural transformation...

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