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Digging deep: Resource exploitation and higher education

Balza, Lenin H.; de los Rios Rueda, Camilo; Rivera, … - 2022

Do resource-extraction booms crowd out postsecondary education? We explore this question by examining the higher … education-related decisions of Chilean high school graduates during the 2000s commodities boom. We find mineral extraction … increases a person's likelihood of enrolling in postsecondary technical education while reducing the likelihood of completing a …

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Getting incentives right: Human capital investment and natural resource booms

Toews, Gerhard; Libman, Alexander - 2017

the consequences of a resource boom on private demand for education. To do this we use the Household Budget Survey of … the formal sector for the educated labour force and the likelihood that households pay tuition fees for tertiary education …

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Resource-Richness and Economic Growth in Contemporary U.S.

Jaimes, Richard; Gerlagh, Reyer - 2017

, on private and public education expenditures, and distortionary taxation. …

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Can Norway be a role model for natural resource abundant countries?

Cappelen, Ådne; Mjøset, Lars - 2009

During the 1950-70s Norway had relatively low GDP per capita compared to the OECD average and even more so compared to Denmark and Sweden. During the 1970s there was a significant catch-up in incomes and from the early 1990s a take-off in relative income. Norway is currently ranked among the...

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Structural change, economic growth and natural resource booms: A structuralist perspective

Botta, Alberto - 2008

The recent increase in the world price of primary commodities has brought back to the forum the issue of the role of natural resources in the development process. Whilst improving terms of trade may help developing countries to grow faster in the short run, doubts still exist on the long-run...

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Repeated selection with heterogenous individuals and relative age effects

Dawid, Herbert; Muehlheusser, Gerd - 2012

In contexts such as education and sports, skill-accumulation of individuals over time crucially depends on the amount …

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Human capital, economic growth, and inequality in China

Heckman, James J.; Yi, Junjian - 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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Resource-Abundance and Economic Growth in the U.S.

Papyrakis, Elissaios; Gerlagh, Reyer - 2004

It is a common assumption that regions within the same country converge to approximately the same steady-state income levels. The so-called absolute convergence hypothesis focuses on initial income levels to account for the variability in income growth among regions. Empirical data seem to...

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Natural Resources, Innovation, and Growth

Papyrakis, Elissaios; Gerlagh, Reyer - 2004

This paper investigates the connection between resource abundance and innovation, as a transmission mechanism that can elucidate part of the resource curse hypothesis; i.e. the observed negative impact of resource wealth on income growth. We develop a variation of the Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans model...

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Natural Resources: A Blessing or a Curse?

Papyrakis, Elissaios; Gerlagh, Reyer - 2003

We examine empirically the effect of natural resource abundance on economic growth. We find that natural resources have a negative impact on growth when considered in isolation, but a positive impact on growth when including in the analysis other variables such as corruption, investments,...

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