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Taller workers earn on average higher salaries. Recent research has proposed cognitive abilities and social skills as explanations for the height-wage premium. Another possible mechanism, employer discrimination, has found little support. In this paper, we provide some evidence in favor of the...
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While women's employment opportunities, relative wages, and the child quantity-quality trade-off have been studied as factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine Prussian county data from three censuses--1816, 1849,...
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Several studies have shown that body height is positively associated with educational attainment. In this paper, we investigate the mechanisms behind this relationship using data on German pre-teen students. We show that (i) taller children are more likely to enroll in ‘Gymnasium’, the most...
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While women's employment opportunities, relative wages, and the child quantity-quality trade-off have been studied as factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine Prussian county data from three censuses - 1816,...
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in Mises and Hayek's explanations of the different hases of the trade cycle, by underlying the role played by knowledge …
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The purpose of this contribution is to investigate the problem of the room attributed to individual economic rationality by circulation approaches. Our investigation will not privilege however the modern contributions of this approach but will instead utilize the works of some economists of the...
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This book surveys how economists engage with knowledge and beliefs in various fields of economic analysis, such as … perspective on the meaning, as well as the role, of knowledge and beliefs in economics in the future. Possible lines of future … action are discussed.A platform for future research and investigation into the role of knowledge and beliefs in economics …
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causal effect of human capital on income, net of the innovation channel. …
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