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Education, income and mobility : experimental impacts of childhood exposure to progresa after 20 years

Araujo, María Caridad; Macours, Karen - 2021 - Version: October 4, 2021

In 1997, the Mexican government designed the conditional cash transfer program Progresa, which became the worldwide model of a new approach to social programs, simultaneously targeting human capital accumulation and poverty reduction. A large literature has documented the short and medium-term...

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Intergenerational transfer, human capital and long-term growth in China under the one child policy

Zhu, Xi; Whalley, John; Zhao, Xiliang - In: Economic modelling 40 (2014), pp. 275-283

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Intergenerational Transfer, Human Capital and Long-term Growth in China under the One Child Policy

Zhu, Xi - 2013

We argue that the demographic changes caused by the one child policy (OCP) may not harm China's long-term growth. This … attributes to the higher human capital induced by the intergenerational transfer arrangement under China's poor … of schooling rather than 8.1). Our model sheds new light on the prospects of China's long-term growth by emphasizing the …

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Intergenerational Transfer, Human Capital and Long-Term Growth in China Under the One Child Policy

Zhu, Xi - 2013

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From epidemic to pandemic: did the COVID-19 outbreak affect high school program choices in Sweden?

Aalto, Aino-Maija; Müller, Dagmar; Tilley, J. Lucas - 2021

Ceding ownership to outside investors provides a control dilemma for founders. In less developed capital markets with weaker formal institutions, we argue that retained founder director ownership can lower the transaction costs of external capital. Our argument rests on incomplete contracting...

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From epidemic to pandemic : effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on high school program choices in Sweden

Aalto, Aino-Maija; Müller, Dagmar; Tilley, J. Lucas - 2022

We study whether the onset of the COVID-19 crisis affected the program choices of high school applicants in Sweden. Our analysis exploits the fact that the admission process consists of two stages: a preliminary round in which applicants initially rank programs in order of preference and a final...

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R&D subsidies and firm innovation : does human capital matter?

Afcha, Sergio; Lucena, Abel - In: Industry and innovation 29 (2022) 10, pp. 1171-1201

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Education policy, student migration, and brain gain

Haupt, Alexander; Krieger, Tim; Lange, Thomas - 2013

In this paper, we analyse how increasing student migration from a less developed to a developed country alters education policy in the developed country, and how it affects human capital and welfare in the two countries. We argue that a higher permanent migration probability, i.e., a higher...

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Boosting scientific research : evidence from a public program

Alonso-Borrego, César; Romero-Medina, Antonio; … - In: Revista de economía aplicada : publicación cuatrimestral 21 (2013) 62, pp. 115-128

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Effects of government education and health expenditures on economic growth : a meta-analysis

Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Siew Ling Yew; Uğur, Mehmet - 2015

Using a sample of 306 estimates drawn from 31 primary studies, this paper conducts an empirical synthesis of the link between economic growth and government expenditure on education or health using meta-analysis. We also explain the heterogeneity in empirical results. We find that the effect of...

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