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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250203
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Differential Fertility, Human Capital, and Development
Vogl, Tom - 2013
its aggregate implications. Before 1960, children from larger families had richer parents and obtained more education. By … skill returns lowered the minimum income at which parents invest in education …Using micro-data from 48 developing countries, I document a recent reversal in the income-fertility relationship and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459534
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Aggregating the Fertility Transition : Intergenerational Dynamics in Quality and Quantity
Vogl, Tom - 2017
Fertility change is distinct from other forms of social and economic change because it directly alters the size and composition of the next generation. This paper studies how changes in population composition over the fertility transition feed back into the evolution of average fertility across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455600
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Mosquitoes : The Long-term Effects of Malaria Eradication in India
Cutler, David - 2007
We examine the effects of malaria on educational attainment and income by exploiting geographic variation in malaria … income for prime age men. This finding is robust to using very localized sources of geographic variation and to instrumenting … for pre-eradication prevalence with climate factors. We do not observe improvements in income for women, suggesting that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465107
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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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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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