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Why Do We Ignore the Risk in Schooling Decisions?

Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2014

While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and …

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Strulik, Holger; Prettner, Klaus; Prskawetz, Alexia - 2010

population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate micro-founded fertility and schooling into …

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Human Capital, Schooling and Health Returns

Schultz, T. Paul - 2003

reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …

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Schooling Supply and the Structure of Production: Evidence from US States 1950-1990

Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - 2013

We find that over the period 1950–1990, states in United States absorbed increases in the supply of schooling due to … tighter compulsory schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of … production. Shifts in the industry composition towards more schooling-intensive industries played a less important role. To try …

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Do higher levels of education and skills in an area benefit wider society?

Winters, John V. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

Formal schooling increases earnings and provides other individual benefits. However, societal benefits of education may …

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Early-life medical care and human capital accumulation

Daysal, N. Meltem - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...

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Do higher levels of education and skills in an area benefit wider society?

Winters, John V. - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)

Formal schooling increases earnings and provides other individual benefits. However, societal benefits of education may …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984689

Human Capital Investment under Exit Options: Evidence from a Natural Quasi-Experiment

Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019

Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...

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Human capital and economic growth: a review essay

Škare, Marinko; Lacmanović, Sabina - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 17 (2015) 39, pp. 735-760

schooling process itself which in the today dynamic and globalized world present a real obstacle to measuring human capital role …

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Changes across Cohorts in Wage Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences

Ashworth, Jared; Hotz, V. Joseph; Maurel, Arnaud; … - 2017

This paper investigates the wage returns to schooling and actual early work experiences, and how these returns have … changed over the past twenty years. Using the NLSY surveys, we develop and estimate a dynamic model of the joint schooling and …

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