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Export Expansion and Investment in Children's Human Capital : Evidence from the U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement

McCaig, Brian; Nguyen, Minh; Kaestner, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

enrollment, work and healthcare use of young children and adolescents in Vietnam. To do so, we exploit variation in tariff …-migrants, but fell among migrants, with the opposite pattern for working. For children (7 to 14), enrolment did not change among non … increased for both children and adolescents. We find evidence that healthcare utilization decreased for both children and …

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Dads and Daughters : Disentangling Altruism and Investment Motives for Spending on Children

Dizon-Ross, Rebecca; Jayachandran, Seema - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

compare mothers' and fathers' willingness to pay (WTP) for specific goods for their children, diverging from the previous … literature's approach of comparing the expenditure effects of mothers' versus fathers' income. Our method, which we apply in … children. We find that fathers have a lower WTP for their daughters' human capital than their sons' human capital, whereas …

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An Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of Neighborhood-based Interventions on Children

Chyn, Eric; Daruich, Diego - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

To study the effects of neighborhood and place-based interventions, this paper incorporates neighborhood effects into a general equilibrium (GE) heterogeneous-agent overlapping-generations model with endogenous location choice and child skill development. Importantly, housing costs as well as...

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Soziale Ertragsraten und Verteilungseffekte des Humankapitals: internationale Evidenz.

Gundlach, Erich; Hemmer, Hans-Rimbert - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2003

Humankapital gilt gemeinhin als eine wesentliche Determinante von Wachstum und Entwicklung. Der empirischen Forschung fällt es derzeit allerdings nicht leicht, die quantitative Relevanz des Humankapitals für den gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklungsprozess zu bestimmen. Neuere Studien bieten ein...

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Better schools for Europe.

Gundlach, Erich; Wößmann, Ludger - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2001

We try to identify which economic factors might be responsible for the large international differences in student performance. We present time series evidence for a number of European countries which suggests that rising educational expenditures obviously did not improve student performance....

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The fading productivity of schooling in East Asia.

Gundlach, Erich; Wößmann, Ludger - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2001

We estimate changes in the productivity of schooling for six East Asian countries. Our productivity measure is based on changes in the relative price of schooling. A rising price of schooling relative to other labor-intensive service sectors should indicate declining relative schooling...

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Die Produktivität der Bildung.

Gundlach, Erich - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 1999

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Die Bedeutung des Humankapitals für das Wirtschaftswachstum.

Gundlach, Erich - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2003

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