Search Results - subject:"Human capital"

Human capital affects religious identity : causal evidence from Kenya

Alfonsi, Livia; Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; … - 2023

We study how human capital and economic conditions causally affect the choice of religious denomination. We utilize a …

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Parent training and child development at low cost? : evidence from a randomized field experiment in Mexico

Cárdenas, Sergio; Evans, David K.; Holland, Peter - 2023

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School choice and private tutoring

Tanaka, Hiroki; Yasuoka, Masaya - 2023

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Human capital transfers and sub-national development : Armenian and Greek legacy in post-expulsion Turkey

Arbatli, Cemal Eren; Gokmen, Gunes - In: Journal of economic growth 28 (2023) 1, pp. 1-43

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Financial literacy, human capital and long-run economic growth

Bucci, Alberto; Calcagno, Riccardo; Marsiglio, Simone; … - 2023

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Selective migration and economic development : a generalized approach

Cha'Ngom, Narcisse; Deuster, Christoph; Docquier, Frédéric - 2023

International migration is a selective process that induces ambiguous effects on human capital and economic development … and human capital accumulation in a multi-country context. We then embed this migration-education nexus into a development … stimulates human capital accumulation and the income of those remaining behind in a majority of countries, in particular in the …

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Evaluating apprenticeship training programs for firms : cost-benefit surveys of employers help design more effective training policies

Mühlemann, Samuel; Pfeifer, Harald - 2023

Apprenticeship training programs typically last several years and require substantial investments by training firms, largely due to the associated labor costs for participants and instructors. Nevertheless, apprentices also add significant value in the workplace. One tool to measure the costs...

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What drives parental investments in early childhood? : experimental evidence from a video intervention in Rwanda

Justino, Patricia; Leone, Marinella; Rolla, Pierfrancesco; … - 2023

This paper investigates the causal impact of a randomized video intervention designed to study the determinants of parental time investments in early childhood among low-income parents. We designed and screened a video that provided information and conveyed persuasive messages about the...

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Armed conflict and early human capital accumulation : evidence from Cameroon's Anglophone conflict

Galindo-Silva, Hector; Tchuente, Guy - 2023

This paper examines the impact of the Anglophone Conflict in Cameroon on human capital accumulation. Using high … conflict-related violence on human capital accumulation, particularly within the Anglophone subsystem. The study emphasizes the …

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Life expectancy and human capital : new empirical evidence

Vu, Trung - In: Health economics 32 (2023) 2, pp. 395-412

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