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Bildungsinvestition 5,309 Human capital investment 4,788 Theorie 1,790 Theory 1,601 Humankapital 957 Human capital 866 Bildungsertrag 641 USA 628 United States 585 Returns to education 565 Deutschland 537 Wirtschaftswachstum 489 Schätzung 479 Germany 450 Economic growth 442 Bildungspolitik 432 Estimation 402 Education policy 371 Welt 334 Bildungsverhalten 307 Kinder 301 World 294 Bildungsfinanzierung 271 Children 267 Educational behaviour 258 Education finance 253 Bildungsniveau 252 Einkommensverteilung 251 Bildungsökonomik 241 Endogenes Wachstumsmodell 237 Endogenous growth model 237 Income distribution 229 Overlapping Generations 229 Qualifikation 224 Economics of education 216 Educational achievement 215 Overlapping generations 206 Occupational qualification 193 Entwicklungsländer 189 Betriebliches Bildungsmanagement 185
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Heckman, James J. 69 Woessmann, Ludger 55 Poutvaara, Panu 49 Gundlach, Erich 45 Lochner, Lance 39 Pfeiffer, Friedhelm 37 Stark, Oded 33 Jacobs, Bas 31 Brunello, Giorgio 29 Zilcha, Itzhak 29 Konrad, Kai A. 28 De la Croix, David 25 Docquier, Frédéric 25 Booth, Alison L. 24 Schultz, T. Paul 23 Behrman, Jere R. 22 Schindler, Dirk 21 Becker, Sascha O. 19 Cunha, Flávio 19 Galor, Oded 19 Hanushek, Eric Alan 19 Checchi, Daniele 18 Andersson, Fredrik 17 Azarnert, Leonid V. 17 Hartog, Joop 17 Zimmermann, Klaus F. 17 Zink, Stefan 16 Belzil, Christian 15 Carneiro, Pedro M. 15 Lavy, Victor 15 Zwick, Thomas 15 Akresh, Richard 14 Beine, Michel 14 Frijters, Paul 14 Ludwig, Alexander 14 Masterov, Dimitriy V. 14 Rapoport, Hillel 14 Reuß, Karsten 14 Tilak, Jandhyala Bala Gangadhara 14 Viaene, Jean-Marie 14
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OECD 22 Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 18 Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung 12 Weltbank 11 Kiel Institute for the World Economy 8 Foerder Institute for Economic Research <Tēl-Āvîv> 6 Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung 5 University of Strathclyde / Department of Economics 4 Université catholique de Louvain / Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales 4 Asian Development Bank 3 Australian National University / Centre for Economic Policy Research 3 Centre for Educational Research and Innovation 3 Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia <Rio de Janeiro> 3 Kansantaloustieteen Laitos <Tampere> 3 Niedersächsisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung 3 OECD / Development Centre 3 Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research 3 University of British Columbia / Department of Economics 3 World Institute for Development Economics Research 3 American Education Finance Association 2 Berenberg-Bank 2 Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung 2 Center for Economic Analysis <Boulder, Colo.> 2 Center for International and Development Economics Research <Berkeley, Calif.> 2 Centre for the Study of African Economies <Oxford> 2 Fraunhofer-Institut für Systemtechnik und Innovationsforschung 2 Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut 2 Institut für Weltwirtschaft 2 Institute for Statistics 2 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 2 Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas 2 Inter-American Development Bank 2 Inter-American Development Bank / Research Department 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Department of Economics 2 National Bureau of Economic Research 2 Shakai-Keizai-Kenkyūsho <Osaka> 2 Social Systems Research Institute 2 State University of New York at Albany / Department of Economics 2 Technische Universität Dresden / Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften 2 Universität Dortmund / Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät 2
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Discussion paper series 272 Working paper 227 Discussion paper / Centre for Economic Policy Research 88 CESifo working papers 77 IZA Discussion Papers 62 IZA Discussion paper series 62 Economics of education review 58 Journal of development economics 48 Working papers 42 Policy research working paper : WPS 41 Journal of human resources : JHR 32 CESifo working papers : the international platform of Ludwig-Maximilians University's Center for Economic Studies and the Ifo Institute 29 Discussion paper 28 Journal of public economics 27 The American economic review 27 Labour economics : official journal of the European Association of Labour Economists 26 Journal of population economics 25 Journal of labor economics 24 CESifo Working Paper 22 The economic journal : the journal of the Royal Economic Society 22 ZEW discussion papers 21 American economic journal : a journal of the American Economic Association 20 International tax and public finance 20 Discussion papers 19 European economic review : EER 19 ZEW Discussion Papers 19 CESifo working paper 18 Economic development and cultural change 18 World development : the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development 18 Journal of economic dynamics & control 17 IZA discussion papers 16 Journal of economic growth 16 Economics letters 15 Europäische Hochschulschriften 15 Kiel working paper 15 The Scandinavian journal of economics 15 Applied economics 14 Center discussion paper 14 International economic review 14 Journal of macroeconomics 14
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Einkommenserträge von Bildungsabschlüssen im Lebensverlauf: Aktuelle Berechnungen für Deutschland
Piopiunik, Marc; Kugler, Franziska; Wößmann, Ludger - In: ifo Schnelldienst 70 (2017) 07, pp. 19-30
Was bringt ein höherer Bildungsabschluss unter dem Strich? Wer eine Lehre macht, nimmt während der Ausbildungszeit als Lehrling Einkommenseinbußen im Vergleich zu einer ungelernten Tätigkeit in Kauf, hofft dann in der Folge aber auf höhere Arbeitseinkommen. Noch viel mehr gilt dies für...
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On the train to brain gain in rural China
Zhang, Yi; Matz, Anna - 2017
This study investigates the well-researched relationship between migration and the formation of human capital in the source region using a novel instrument: the existence of a local train station. We make use of Chinese panel data and of the fact that the decision to build a new train station is...
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Paid parental leave and child development : evidence from the 2007 German parental benefit reform and administrative data
Huebener, Mathias; Kuehnle, Daniel; Spieß, Christa … - 2017
This paper examines the effects of a substantial change in publicly funded paid parental leave in Germany on child development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth....
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Dynamic skill accumulation, education policies and the return to schooling
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2017
Using a dynamic skill accumulation model of schooling and labor supply with learning-by-doing, we decompose early life-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours worked, cognitive skills (AFQT scores) and unobserved heterogeneity, and evaluate the effect of...
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Do conditional cash transfers (CCT) raise educational attainment? : a case study of Juntos in Peru
Gaentzsch, Anja - 2017
This paper empirically investigates the impacts of Peru's Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme JUNTOS upon educational outcomes of beneficiary children. The findings associate Juntos participation with higher overall enrolment rates and grades of schooling for children aged 12 to 18 years....
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Bonus skills : examining the effect of an unconditional cash transfer on child human capital formation
Gaitz, Jason; Schurer, Stefanie - 2017
This paper evaluates the impact of the Australian Baby Bonus - a Jason Gaitz one-off cash transfer - on various aspects of child human capital development. Using high-quality longitudinal cohort data and difference-in-difference models, we compare the outcomes of cohort members whose younger...
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Skills or jobs: which comes first? : jobs require skills, but they also build skills and create a demand for them
Hentschel, Jesko - 2017
Skills are widely regarded as being necessary for boosting productivity, stimulating innovation, and creating new jobs, while skill mismatches are often cited as being responsible for a lack of dynamism in the labor market. However, heavy investments in technical and vocational training programs...
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Does homeownership affect education outcomes? : homeownership facilitates investment in human capital, though direct effects on education outcomes are unclear
Whelan, Stephen P. - 2017
Homeownership has important economic implications for society and individuals. At the social level is the greater civic engagement that homeowners tend to exhibit, while at the individual level an important outcome associated with housing tenure is better education outcomes, especially for...
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Are there different spillover effects from cash transfers to men and women? : impacts on investments in education in post-war Uganda
Calderone, Margherita - 2017
This paper looks at the spillover effects of grants under the Youth Opportunities Programme (YOP) on human capital investments in conflict-affected Northern Uganda. The YOP grant was primarily aimed at providing start-up money to groups of underemployed young people, and in practice worked...
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Takeoffs, landing, and economic growth
Pakrashi, Debayan; Frijters, Paul - 2017
Economic growth in the East Asian economies was remarkable during the latter part of the 20th century, starting with Japan just after World War II, followed by the East Asian Tigers and "tiger cubs" after that and, most recently, the People's Republic of China and India. The high, sustained...
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Equal opportunity through higher education : theory and evidence on privilege and ability
Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El, Ronen; Tobol, Yossi - 2017
We model a higher education system that admits students according to their admission signal (e.g., matriculation GPA, SAT), which is, in turn, affected by their cognitive ability and socioeconomic background. We show that subsidizing education loans increases neither human capital stock nor...
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Aggregating the fertility transition : intergenerational dynamics in quality and quantity
Vogl, Tom - 2017
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Keepin' 'em down on the farm : migration and strategic investment in children's schooling
Jensen, Robert T.; Miller, Nolan - 2017
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The gender wage gap in developed countries
Kunze, Astrid - 2017
Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends...
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Ethnic capital and intergenerational transmission of educational attainment
Postepska, Agnieszka - 2017
This paper studies the role of ethnicity in the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. Relying on heteroskedasticity to identify parameters in the presence of endogenous regressors, I revisit Borjas ethnic capital hypothesis. I find evidence that the OLS estimates of the...
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Ben-Porath meets Lazear : lifetime skill investment and occupation choice with multiple skills
Cavounidis, Costas; Lang, Kevin - 2017
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Stylized facts about the quantity and quality of parental time investments on the skill formation of their children
Torres, Javier; Agüero, Jorge M. - 2017
This paper uses seven nationally representative time use surveys in Latin America to identify key stylized facts regarding the quantity and quality of parental time investment on the skill formation of their children. Traditional models of household behavior have failed to account for the...
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Patterns, trends and policy implications of private spending on skills development in Mexico and the United States
Székely, Miguel; Mendoza, Pamela - 2017
This paper explores families' investment in skills development through education in a high-inequality, low-education quality country such as Mexico, comparing it to a lower-inequality, higher-quality education country such as the United States. The paper uses a series of high-quality Household...
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The contribution of increased equity to the estimated social benefits from a transfer program : an illustration from PROGRESA/Oportunidades
Alderman, Harold; Behrman, Jere R.; Tasneem, Afia - 2017
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Nudging study habits : a field experiment on peer tutoring in higher education
Wilson, Nicholas; Pugatch, Todd - 2017
More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services offer one approach toward improving learning outcomes in higher education. We conducted a randomized controlled experiment designed to increase take-up of university tutoring...
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The gender wage gap in developed countries
Kunze, Astrid - 2017
Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends...
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After lead : effects of early interventions for children exposed to lead
Billings, Stephen B.; Schnepel, Kevin T. - 2017
Lead pollution is consistently linked to cognitive and behavioral impairments, yet little is known about the benefits of public health interventions for children exposed to lead. This paper estimates the long-term impacts of early-life interventions (e.g. lead remediation, nutritional...
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The value of redistribution : natural resources and the formation of human capital under weak institutions
Agüero, Jorge M.; Balcázar, Carlos Felipe; Maldonado … - 2017
We exploit time and spatial variation generated by the commodities boom to measure the effect of natural resources on human capital formation in Peru, a country with low governance indicators. Combining test scores from over two million students and district-level administrative data on mining...
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The gender wage gap in developed countries
Kunze, Astrid - 2017
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Talent discovery, layoff risk and unemployment insurance
Pagano, Marco; Picariello, Luca - 2017
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Reducing inequality through dynamic complementarity : evidence from head start and public school spending
Johnson, Rucker C.; Jackson, Clement - 2017
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Air pollution, educational achievements, and human capital formation : exposure to elevated levels of air pollution adversely affects educational outcomes
Roth, Sefi - 2017
The link between air pollution and human health is well-documented in the epidemiology and economic literature. Recently, an increasing body of research has shown that air pollution-even in relatively low doses-also affects educational outcomes across several distinct age groups and varying...
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Aggregating the fertility transition : intergenerational dynamics in quality and quantity
Vogl, Tom - 2017
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Family-friendly and human-capital-based immigration policy : Shifting the focus from immigrants’ initial earnings to their propensity to invest in human capital
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2017
Immigrants who start with low earnings, such as family-based immigrants, experience higher earnings growth than immigrants who are recruited for specific jobs (employment-based immigrants). This occurs because family-based immigrants with lower initial earnings invest in human capital at higher...
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Informal Credit Markets, Common-pool Resources and Education
Riekhof, Marie-Catherine; Noack, Frederik - 2016
The paper analyses the effect of interest rate changes on education and child labor in an economy with a high-skilled sector, a low-skilled sector and fragmented credit markets. The high-skilled sector takes educated labor as input. The low-skilled sector takes unskilled labor, physical capital...
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Preference for the workplace, investment in human capital, and gender
Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2016
In this paper, we use a hypothetical choice methodology to robustly estimate preferences for workplace attributes. Undergraduate students are presented with sets of jobs that vary in their attributes (such as earnings and job hours flexibility) and asked to state their probabilistic choices. We...
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Balanced growth despite Uzawa
Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan; Oberfield, Ezra; … - 2016
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Preference for the workplace, investment in human capital, and gender
Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2016
In this paper, we use a hypothetical choice methodology to robustly estimate preferences for workplace attributes. Undergraduate students are presented with sets of jobs that vary in their attributes (such as earnings and job hours flexibility) and asked to state their probabilistic choices. We...
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A model of gender inequality and economic growth
Kim, Jinyoung; Lee, Jong-Wha; Shin, Kwanho - 2016
This paper introduces a model of gender inequality and economic growth that focuses on the determination of women's time allocation among market production, home production, child rearing, and child education. The theoretical model is based on Agénor (2012), but differs in several important...
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Subjective completion beliefs and the demand for post-secondary education
Kunz, Johannes; Staub, Kevin E. - 2016
The outcome of pursuing a post-secondary educational degree is uncertain. A student might not complete a chosen degree for a number of reasons, such as academic insufficiency or financial constraints. Thus, when considering whether to invest in post-secondary education, students must factor in...
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Parenting style as an investment in human development
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zhu, Anna - 2016
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Balanced growth despite Uzawa
Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan; Oberfield, Ezra; … - 2016
Evidence for the United States suggests balanced growth despite falling investment-good prices and less than unitary elasticity of substitution between capital and labor. This is inconsistent with the Uzawa Growth Theorem. We extend Uzawa.s theorem to show that introducing human capital...
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Human capital and education : the state of the art in the economics of education
Burgess, Simon M. - 2016
This review describes the research frontier on human capital and education in economics research. It delineates what is known and largely agreed, and what are the most promising lines for future research. The approach will be to explain clearly and precisely the research evidence, in a way that...
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Locus of control and its intergenerational implications for early childhood skill formation
Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Warrinnier, Nele - 2016
This paper builds upon Cunha's (2015) subjective rationality model in which parents have a subjective belief about the impact of their investment on the early skill formation of their children. We propose that this subjective belief is determined in part by locus of control (LOC), i.e., the...
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Estimation of a roy/search/compensating differential model of the labor market
Taber, Christopher; Vejlin, Rune Majlund - 2016
In this paper we develop a model capturing key features of the Roy model, a search model, compensating differentials, and human capital accumulation on-the-job. We establish which features of the model can be non-parametrically identified and which cannot. We estimate the model and use it to...
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The "pupil" factory : specialization and the production of human capital in schools
Fryer, Roland G. - 2016
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The long-term consequences of teacher discretion in grading of high-stakes tests
Diamond, Rebecca; Persson, Petra - 2016
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Role of parental expectations in determining child labour and schooling
Mukherjee, Conan; Pal, Rama - 2016
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Parenting style as an investment in human development
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zhu, Anna - 2016
We propose a household production function approach to human development in which the role of parenting style in child rearing is explicitly considered. Specifically, we model parenting style as an investment in human development that depends not only on inputs of time and market goods, but also...
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Maternal education, parental investment and non-cognitive skills in rural China
Leight, Jessica; Liu, Elaine M. - 2016
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The long-term consequences of teacher discretion in grading of high-stakes tests
Diamond, Rebecca; Persson, Petra - 2016
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Naturalisation and investments in children's human capital : evidence from a natural experiment
Haaren-Giebel, Friederike von - 2016 - This version: 18 February 2016
This paper assesses educational attainment of immigrant children, in particular evaluating whether naturalised parents invest more in their children's human capital than non-naturalised parents. Findings of the literature indicate that citizenship is associated with lower return migration...
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Parental time investment and intergenerational mobility
Yum, Minchul - 2016
This paper investigates parental time investment in children prior to formal schooling as a source of intergenerational income persistence in the U.S. I develop a dynamic general equilibrium model where lifetime income endogenously persists across generations through multiple channels. My model...
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Capabilities and skills
Heckman, James J.; Corbin, Chase O. - 2016
This paper discusses the relevance of recent research on the economics of human development to the work of the Human Development and Capability Association. The recent economics of human development brings insights about the dynamics of skill accumulation to an otherwise static literature on...
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The benefits of alternatives to conventional college : labor-market returns to proprietary schooling
Jepsen, Christopher; Mueser, Peter R.; Jeon, Kyung-Seong - 2016
This paper provides novel evidence on the labor-market returns to proprietary (also called for-profit) postsecondary school attendance. Specifically, we link administrative records on proprietary school attendance with quarterly earnings data for nearly 70,000 students. Because average age at...
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