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Restricting temporary contracts increases firm-provided training : evidence from Spain

Adrjan, Pawel; Jessen, Jonas; Victoria, Carlos - 2026

We examine whether restricting temporary contracts increases firms' investment in worker training, exploiting Spain's 2022 labour market reform. Using 3.1 million online job postings from 2018 to 2024, we implement a difference-in-differences design that leverages prereform variation in reliance...

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Restricting temporary contracts increases firm-provided training : evidence from spain

Adrjan, Pawel; Jessen, Jonas; Victoria, Carlos - 2026

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A historical note on the assimilation rates of foreign-born men and women in the U.S.

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Dowhan, Dan; Liu, Xingfei; … - 2025

The 1924 Immigration Act excluded immigrants from economically developing countries to the point of their near total exclusion. Forty years later, the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act eliminated most discriminatory county-of-origin barriers. America's doors opened and immigration from...

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A historical note on the assimilation rates of foreign-born men and women in the U.S.

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Dowhan, Dan; Liu, Xingfei; … - 2025

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Lifecycle wages and human capital investments : selection and missing data

Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Roux, Sébastien - 2025

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Lifecycle wages and human capital investments : selection and missing data

Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Roux, Sébastien - 2025

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Lifecycle wages and human capital investments : selection and missing data

Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Roux, Sébastien - 2022 - This version: February 2, 2022

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Lifecycle wages and human capital investments : selection and missing data

Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Roux, Sébastien - 2022

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Non-Compete Agreements : human capital investments or compensated wages?

Kodama, Naomi; Kambayashi, Ryo; Izumi, Atsuko - 2025

Non-Compete Agreements (NCAs) restrict workers from joining or forming rival companies, which impacts labor market dynamics. Theoretical perspectives on NCAs are varied: they can lead to increased employer investment and higher wages by reducing labor turnover, or they might simply raise wages...

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When managers choose : gender disparities in employer training provision

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Huber, Katrin; … - 2025

We examine how gender shapes managers’ decisions regarding on-the-job training using a discrete choice experiment embedded in a representative survey of German firms. While previous research on training has focused on employees’ demand for it, we make a contribution by studying firms’...

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When managers choose: gender disparities in employer training provision

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Huber, Katrin; … - 2025

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When managers choose : gender disparities in employer training provision

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Huber, Katrin; … - 2025

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Co-ethnic neighbours and integration of migrant children

Damm, Anna Piil; Hassani, Ahmad; Hvidtfeldt, Camilla; … - 2025

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Social norms and the impact of early life events on gender inequality

Luo, Wei; Huang, Wei; Park, Albert - 2024

We study the influence of social norms in determining the impact of early life exposure to the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961 on gender inequality. We model how social norms interact with adverse shocks to affect male and female survival chances and influence subsequent human capital...

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Droughts: learning continuity and recovery

Chatterjee, Somdeep; Katewa, Neeraj - 2024

In this paper, we study the nuanced relationship between drought, academic performance, and the efficacy of preventive measures, focusing on two drought-prone regions from the states of Maharashtra and Karnataka in India. Utilizing an event study framework relying on difference-in-differences...

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Declining fertility, human capital investment, and economic sustainability

Myrskylä, Mikko; Hellstrand, Julia; Lappo, Sampo; … - 2024

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Parental and school responses to student performance : evidence from school entry rules

Fredriksson, Peter; Öckert, Björn; Tilley, J. Lucas - 2024

We examine whether parental and school investments reinforce or compensate for student performance. Our analysis exploits school-starting-age rules in 34 countries, capturing achievement variation that arises because younger children typically underperform their older peers. Parents respond to...

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Demography, human capital investment, and lifetime earnings for women and men

Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Khamis, Melanie; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2024

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Demography, human capital investment, and lifetime earnings for women and men

Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Khamis, Melanie; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2024

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Demography, human capital investment, and lifetime earnings for women and men

Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Khamis, Melanie; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2024

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Optimal education policy, R&D productivity, and endogenous growth with heterogeneous individuals

Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2026

This study characterizes optimal policy in an endogenous growth model where heterogeneous individuals choose between entering the workforce as unskilled labor or pursuing education to become skilled. In the decentralized economy, monopolists produce goods using both labor types. They purchase...

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Endogenous education duration, fertility choice, and mortality : a framework for optimal population policy

Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2026

This paper characterizes optimal education and population policies within a continuous-time overlapping generations (OLG) framework where fertility, schooling duration, and health expenditures are endogenous. In this model, mortality risk is driven by a negative congestion effect from population...

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The "China shock" and middle-income economies : threats to industrialization and human capital formation

Coxhead, Ian; Strutt, Anna; Corong, Erwin L.; … - 2026

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Skill formation with siblings

Toppeta, Alessandro - 2026

This paper estimates a structural model of skill formation for children who grow up with siblings, introducing a novel variable, the "sibling bond," which captures how well siblings get along. Using data from the Millennium Cohort Study in the United Kingdom, I construct this measure from...

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The effects of parental competitive pressure on private education investment

Han, Sungmin; Han, Seungjoo - 2026

In South Korea, education serves as a critical engine for social mobility, where academic credentials from prestigious universities function as a decisive factor in shaping career trajectories and earning potential. This dynamic has fostered intense educational fervor and led to the...

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The evolution of US educational mobility over the 20th century and the role of public education

Bailey, Martha J.; Mohammed, A. R. Shariq; Mohnen, Paul - 2026

We construct two new large-scale datasets to measure relative and upward educational mobility by sex, race, class, and childhood county of residence for cohorts born in 1910-1919 and 1982-1997. We show that both relative and upward educational mobility rose over the 20th century, with...

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Access to clean water and human capital formation : evidence from Indonesia

Pohn, Lukas; Schulze, Günther G. - 2026

We estimate the causal effect of access to clean water sources on educational outcomes in Indonesia. Using the longitudinal Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) panel dataset, which follows the same individuals from 1993 to 2014, and applying household fixed effects allows us to identify the...

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Access to clean water and human capital formation : evidence from Indonesia

Pohn, Lukas; Schulze, Günther G. - 2026

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Demographic Transition and Education Expenditure in South Asia : Opportunities and Challenges

Marchionni, Mariana; Tognatta, Namrata Raman; Vazquez, … - 2026

Decline in the school-age population due to demographic changes presents an opportunity to redirect resources within the education sector to improve access and quality. However, the experiences of countries that have gone through similar demographic transitions show that a shrinking student...

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Does government spending on education increase intergenerational education mobility? : the case of Free Compulsory Basic Education in Ghana

Branson, Nicola; Whitelaw, Emma - 2026

This paper examines whether Ghana's education reforms have increased intergenerational education mobility. Using the newly constructed Ghana Education and Labour Series-a harmonized dataset combining multiple rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey-we track intergenerational education...

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The long-run effects of conditional cash transfers : the case of Bolsa Família in Brazil

Laguinge, Luis; Gasparini, Leonardo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2026

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes aim to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty by fostering human capital accumulation among children in vulnerable households. However, due to data limitations, evidence on their long-run effects remains scarce. This paper contributes to...

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The legacy of China’s one-child policy on human capital : how being raised by an only child affects cognitive and noncognitive skill development

Feng, Shuaizhang; Gan, Yu; Han, Yujie; Kautz, Tim - 2026

China's One-Child Policy (OCP) restricted most couples to a single birth, leading to a rapid increase in the prevalence of only children. Using longitudinal data and a regression discontinuity design around the policy's start, we estimate the effects on grandchildren's human capital. We find...

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Climate hazards, childhood experiences, and development trajectories : the long-term impact of GLOF exposure

Finan, Olivia; Finan, Kira; Doyle, Orla - 2026

This study examines the long-term impact of childhood exposure to Glacier Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) on adult human capital outcomes in the High Mountain Asia (HMA) region. Using historical GLOF data and geospatial mapping of downstream flood pathways, we identify treatment and control groups...

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Inflation and human capital investment decisions

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Westergren, Kerstin - 2026

This study investigates the impact of inflation on human capital investment decisions. Using a specially designed survey we estimate the causal effect of recent price level increases on the graduation plans of over 1,200 U.S. university students. We find that inflation caused over half of the...

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Inflation and human capital investment decisions

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Westergren, Kerstin - 2026

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Human capital and development

Aghion, Philippe; Almås, Ingvild; Meghir, Costas - 2026

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Human Capital and Development

Aghion, Philippe; Almås, Ingvild; Meghir, Costas - 2025

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Framing a place-based investment strategy for Fermanagh & Omagh

Sensier, Marianne; Hoskins, Joel; Francis, Michael; … - 2026

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How parenting styles shape children's lifetime outcomes

Dohmen, Thomas; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Grönqvist, Hans; … - 2026

This study examines how parenting styles predict children's lifetime outcomes. Using a Swedish dataset which combines rich survey information on parenting styles with administrative records tracking children over five decades, we find that authoritarian parenting is negatively associated with...

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How parenting styles shape children's lifetime outcomes

Dohmen, Thomas; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Grönqvist, Hans; … - 2026

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How parenting styles shape children's lifetime outcomes

Dohmen, Thomas; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Grönqvist, Hans; … - 2026

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Mothers, schools, and the making of American human capital mobility

Althoff, Lukas; Brookes Gray, Harriet; Reichardt, Hugo - 2026 - Original version: March 2025, this version: Januar 2026

How did the US become a land of opportunity? Previous historical research on intergenerational mobility has focused on father-son income correlations, masking the role of mothers. We introduce a new mobility measure that incorporates both parents’ human capital, develop a latent variable...

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Dreams and small means : career aspirations of children in the Philippine 4Ps Program

Melad, Kris Ann M.; Abrigo, Michael Ralph M.; Diola, … - 2026

This study examines the career aspirations of economically disadvantaged Filipino children participating in the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), the Philippines' flagship conditional cash transfer program. Using data from 9,958 children aged 10 to 25 collected through the Fourth Wave...

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AI investment and economic growth : exploring the divergence of equilibria

Suzusho, Nobuyasu - 2026

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From human development to human capital development? : critical reflections on the EU education and skills policies in Africa with a focus on the Global Gateway

Langthaler, Margarita; Tiefengraber, Esther - 2026

The Global Gateway is considered a key instrument of EU development cooperation. Introduced in 2021, it was announced as a 'win-win' strategy for both, the EU's competitiveness agenda and developing countries' strive for sustainable development. The Global Gateway epitomises the current shifts...

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Framing a place-based investment strategy for South Tyneside

Sensier, Marianne; Penney, Kate; Francis, Michael; … - 2026

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Targeting foundational skills at scale : skill specificity and transfer

De Barros, Andreas; Lubozha, Theresa - 2026

Whether targeted foundational instruction yields broad, long-term human capital gains is central to education policy but largely untested. We provide causal evidence from Zambia's government-run foundational skills program in public primary schools. After two years, a randomized trial shows the...

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Education financing under borrowing constraints : political economy implications for intergenerational fiscal policy and growth

Uchida, Yuki; Ono, Tetsuo - 2026

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The role and importance of human capital in exports and growth : the case of Türkiye

Temiz, Dilek; Gökmen, Aytaç - 2026

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Spending on education, human capital, and economic growth in Central America : a panel data analysis with Driscoll-Kraay standard errors

Sorto-Bueso, José Rodolfo; Paredes Heller, Juan Jacobo; … - 2026

The main purpose of this study is to assess the effect of current public expenditure on education and human capital on economic growth in Central America between 1992 and 2021. In this context, data on education spending and human capital for Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and...

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Effective families or effective schools? : experimental evidence on fostering children's numeracy

Berlinski, Samuel G.; Giannola, Michele; Toppeta, Alessandro - 2026

We study the relative effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and interaction of family- and school-based learning interventions using a randomized controlled trial in Colombia that assigns children to a parental engagement program, a teacher professional development program, both, or a control...

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Effective families or effective schools? : experimental evidence on fostering children's numeracy

Berlinski, Samuel G.; Giannola, Michele; Toppeta, Alessandro - 2026

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Parental migration and unconditional cash transfers for education : evidence from the smart Indonesia program

Destefanis, Alessia; Rahut, Dil Bahadur - 2026

This paper examines how parental migration interacts with unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) for education by analyzing Indonesia's Smart Indonesia Program (PIP), which provides educational grants to children from poor households. Using a difference-in-differences approach and nationally...

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Migration opportunities and human capital investments

Gehrke, Esther - 2026

We examine how shocks to migration opportunities affect schooling outcomes in origin communities. We focus on the migration between Mexico and the United States, and exploit the expansion of the Secure Communities program in the US - a federal datasharing program that substantially increased the...

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Paying disadvantaged teenagers to stay in school

Britton, Jack; Ridpath, Nick; Villa, Carmen; Waltmann, Ben - 2026

We evaluate the Education Maintenance Allowance, a large conditional cash transfer scheme that paid low-income teenagers in England to remain in education beyond age 16. Using the staggered national roll-out of the programme and linked administrative data tracking education, earnings, welfare...

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Paying disadvantaged teenagers to stay in school

Britton, Jack; Ridpath, Nick; Villa, Carmen; Waltmann, Ben - 2025

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A macroeconomic model of Ph.D. enrollment with income risk and non-pecuniary preferences

Hayama, Airi - 2026

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Human capital formation in the Caribbean : implications for labour productivity and sustainable development

Abdulkadri, Abdullahi Olabode; Leon, Daniel; Jones, Francis - 2026

Labour productivity has been on a declining trend in the Caribbean. An examination of this trend revealed a growing concern of skills mismatch in the labour market. At the same time, youth unemployment is high in many countries, with young women and girls twice as likely not to be in education,...

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A dynamic model of the economic returns to adolescent social skills

Weingarten, Zach; Behrman, Jere R.; Postlewaite, Andrew - 2026

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A dynamic model of the economic returns to adolescent social skills

Weingarten, Zack; Behrman, Jere R.; Postlewaite, Andrew - 2026

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El desafío económico del envejecimiento y el papel del aumento de la educación en el Uruguay

Bucheli, Marisa; González, Cecilia - 2026

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Early Childhood Education and Care in the Western Balkans : Investing for Children, Families and Jobs

Gomez Tamayo, Sofia; Santos, Indhira Vanessa; Shmis, Tigran - 2026

Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) encompasses publicly regulated services that provide education and childcare for children from birth until the start of primary education. ECEC plays a critical role in fostering children’s cognitive, social, and emotional development, enhancing school...

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How innovation and heterogenous human capital shape wealth and income inequality

Spinesi, Luca - 2026

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Housing wealth and labor supply : evidence from geographically-linked microdata

Yang, Xi - 2026

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Roles of parental risk and time preferences in parental investment and aspirations

Kilenthong, Weerachart T.; Sartja Duangchaiyoosook; … - 2026

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Long-run effects of universal pre-primary education expansion : evidence from Argentina

Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cruces, Guillermo; Galiani, Sebastián - 2026

We study the long-run effects of a large public expansion of pre-primary education in Argentina. Between 1993 and 1999, the federal government financed the construction of new preschool classrooms targeted to departments with low baseline enrollment and high poverty, creating roughly 186,000...

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Brain drain, education subsidy and the Bhagwati tax

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2026

An early view, associated with the Bhagwati tax, is that skilled migration - i.e., a brain drain - has a negative impact on migrants' source countries. A more recent view is that a brain drain generates a brain gain which can have a positive impact on source countries. This view is based on a...

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Brain drain, education subsidy and the Bhagwati tax

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2026

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