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Birth order effects in the developed and developing world : evidence from international test scores
Andersen, Dana C.; Güneş, Pinar Mine - 2023
This paper examines the effect of birth order and family size on human capital using a consistent measure of cognitive skills across a diverse set of countries with different levels of development from PISA dataset. Using a birth order index that is orthogonal to family size, as well as...
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Involuntary integration in public education, fertility and human capital
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2008
This article analyzes the negative side of involuntary integration in public education - its effect on whites. The … model shows that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private … prosperous parents multicultural integration in public education decreases their children's human capital levels. The analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336029
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Gender bias in education during conflict : evidence from Assam
Roy, Sutanuka; Prakarsh Singh - 2016
Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476468
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Gender bias in education during conflict : cvidence from Assam
Roy, Sutanuka; Prakarsh Singh - 2016
Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517894
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Drought of opportunities : contemporaneous and long-term impacts of rainfall shocks on human capital
Shah, Manisha; Steinberg, Bryce Millett - 2015
Higher wages are generally thought to increase human capital production, particularly in the developing world. We introduce a simple model of human capital production in which investments and time allocation differ by age. Using data on test scores and schooling from rural India, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375976
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Workfare and human capital investment : evidence from India
Shah, Manisha; Steinberg, Bryce Millett - 2015
We examine the effect of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), one of the largest workfare programs in the world, on human capital investment. Since NREGS increases labor demand, it could increase the opportunity cost of schooling, lowering human capital investment even as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387105
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Dynamic skill accumulation, education policies and the return to schooling
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2017
-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours worked, cognitive skills (AFQT scores) and … individual differences in hours worked and education explain the remaining part almost equally. We show how our model is a … education. Finally, because policy changes induce simultaneous movements in observed choices and average per-year effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625378
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Dynamic skill accumulation, education policies, and the return to schooling
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 8 (2017) 3, pp. 895-927
-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours worked, cognitive skills (Armed Forces … by heterogeneity while individual differences in hours worked and education explain the remaining part almost equally. We … reduction in the cost of higher education. Finally, because policy changes induce simultaneous movements in observed choices and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011801771
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Involuntary integration in public education, fertility and human capital
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2008
This article analyzes the negative side of involuntary integration in public education – its effect on whites. The … model shows that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private … prosperous parents multicultural integration in public education decreases their children’s human capital levels. The analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003798539
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Policy challenges for the next 50 years
Braconier, Henrik; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Westmore, Ben - 2014
This paper identifies and analyses some key challenges that OECD and partner economies may face over the coming 50 years if underlying global trends relating to growth, trade, inequality and environmental pressures prevail. For example, global growth is likely to slow and become increasingly...
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