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Where Do STEM Graduates Stem From? The Intergenerational Transmission of Comparative Skill Advantages

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …

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Child Skill Production : Accounting for Parental and Market-Based Time and Goods Investments

Caucutt, Elizabeth M. - 2020

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Education, Work, and Crime : A Human Capital Approach

Lochner, Lance - 2004

This paper develops a model of crime in which human capital increases the opportunity cost of crime from foregone work and expected costs associated with incarceration. Older, more intelligent, and more educated adults should commit fewer street (unskilled) crimes. White collar crimes decline...

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Earnings Dynamics and Intergenerational Transmission of Skill

Lochner, Lance - 2020

throughout their lives, parents' initial skills and skill growth rates are equally important determinants of children's skills … lower for children born to younger fathers … transmission of these factors explains up to 40% of children's skill variation. Skills become a more important determinant of …

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Understanding Trends in Chinese Skill Premiums, 2007-2018

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Wang, Yuan; Zhang, Lei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The dramatic expansion of the education system and the transformation of the economy in China provide an opportunity to investigate how the labor market rewards skills. Between 2007 and 2018, the overall return to cognitive skills is virtually constant at 10%, whereas the college premium drops...

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Understanding Earnings Dynamics : Identifying and Estimating the Changing Roles of Unobserved Ability, Permanent and Transitory Shocks

Lochner, Lance - 2014

We consider a general framework to study the evolution of wage and earnings residuals that incorporates features highlighted by two influential but distinct literatures in economics: (i) unobserved skills with changing non-linear pricing functions and (ii) idiosyncratic shocks with both...

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Global Universal Basic Skills : Current Deficits and Implications for World Development

Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

achievement tests, we map achievement onto a common (PISA) scale. We then estimate the share of children not achieving basic …

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Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation

Cunha, Flavio - 2005

This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the next...

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Correlation, Consumption, Confusion, or Constraints : Why do Poor Children Perform so Poorly?

Caucutt, Elizabeth M. - 2015

developing and persistent gaps in child achievement by family income and the importance of adolescent skill levels for … family income, we study four leading mechanisms thought to explain these gaps: an intergenerational correlation in ability, a … mechanisms influence family investments in children, we evaluate the extent to which these mechanisms also explain other …

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