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Many Types of Human Capital and Many Roles in U.S. Growth: Evidence from County-Level Educational Attainment Data

Young, Andrew; Levy, Daniel; Higgins, Matthew - EconWPA - 2004

We utilize county-level data to explore the roles of different types of human capital accumulation in U.S. growth determination. The data includes over 3,000 cross-sectional observations and 39 demographic control variables. The large number of observations provides enough degrees of freedom to...

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Population and economic growth with human and physical capital investments

BUCCI, Alberto; TORRE, Davide LA - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2007

We present a two-sector endogenous growth model with human and physical capital accumulation in order to analyze the long run relationship between population growth and real per capita income growth. Learning is assumed to affect agents’ decision of how much to invest in formal education....

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Population in factor accumulation-based growth

BUCCI, Alberto - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008

This paper analyzes the conditions under which, within a two-sector endogenous growth model with human and physical capital accumulation but without R&D-driven disembodied technological progress, it is possible to observe an ambiguous effect of population growth on economic growth, as empirical...

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Scale effects, saving and factor shares in a human capital-based growth model with physical capital accumulation

BUCCI, Alberto - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008

Using a balanced-growth model with physical and human capital accumulation, this article analyzes quantitatively the long run effects of changes in the saving rate and in income distribution (i.e., the shares of physical and human capital in income) on investment in human capital, growth of...

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Economic growth in an enlarged Europe: the human capital and R&D dimensions

BUCCI, Alberto - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2004

Achieving the objective of making the European Union the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy is not an … knowledge capital. It also suggests policies (complementary to the ones recommended in the Sapir Report) that can be put into …

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On human capital and economic growth with random technology shocks

BUCCI, Alberto; COLAPINTO, Cinzia; FORSTER, Martin; … - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008

We embed the Uzawa-Lucas human capital accumulation technology into the Mankiw-Romer-Weil exogenous growth model. The paper is divided into two parts. In the first part we assume that the rate of technological progress is exogenous and deterministic and study the local dynamics of the model...

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Intelligence, Human Capital, and Economic Growth: A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach

Jones, Garett; Schneider, W. Joel - EconWPA - 2005

Human capital plays an important role in the theory of economic growth, but it has been difficult to measure this abstract concept. We survey the psychological literature on cross-cultural IQ tests, and conclude that modern intelligence tests are well-suited for measuring an important form of a...

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Capital Humano y Crecimiento Económico en México (1970-2000). Human Capital and Economic Growth in Mexico.

Bautista, Alejandro Diaz; Dominguez, Mauro Diaz - EconWPA - 2004

En los últimos años, se han realizado diversos estudios a nivel mundial utilizando el modelo de crecimiento y convergencia económica, a través de países y de regiones. Para el caso de México, hasta la segunda mitad de los noventas comienza el análisis empírico de la convergencia...

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IQ in the Ramsey Model: A Naive Calibration

Jones, Garett - EconWPA - 2005

I show that in a conventional Ramsey model, between one-fourth and one- half of income differences across countries can be explained by a single factor: The steady-state effect of large, persistent differences in national average IQ on worker productivity. These differences in cognitive...

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Technologies and practices for constructing knowledge in online environments : advancements in learning

Ertl, Bernhard (contributor) - 2010

"This book details practices of and technologies for e-collaborative knowledge construction, providing insights in the …1. Computer support in E-collaborative learning-by-doing environments / Lin Qiu -- 2. Collaborative knowledge …. Collaborative knowledge construction with Web video conferencing / Stylianos Hatzipanagos, Anthony Basiel, Annette Fillery …

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