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Human capital development and parental investment in India
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Nix, Emily - 2015
-15 years of age using two cohorts of children drawn from the Young Lives Survey for India. The inputs into the production … endogenous and they depend on local prices and household income, as well as on the exogenous determinants of cognition and health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011471856
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Human capital development and parental investment in India
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Nix, Emily - 2017
We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, where over 70 million … children aged 0-5 are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production functions include parental background …, prior child cognition and health, and child investments. We use income and local prices to control for the endogeneity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011674176
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The effect of education policy on crime : an intergenerational perspective
Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - 2011
. We then show that the benefits extended to the next generation with large reductions in the crime rates of the children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009521196
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The Effect of Education Policy on Crime : An Intergenerational Perspective
Meghir, Costas - 2011
. We then show that the benefits extended to the next generation with large reductions in the crime rates of the children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117844
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Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries
Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Wilhelm, Daniel; … - 2020
It is often desired to rank different populations according to the value of some feature of each population. For example, it may be desired to rank neighborhoods according to some measure of intergenerational mobility or countries according to some measure of academic achievement. These rankings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180493
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Are Austrian returns to education falling over time?
Fersterer, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 1999
In this paper we make a systematic presentation of returns to education in Austria for the period 1981-1997. We use consistent cross-sections from the Mikrozensus and find falling returns over time. These falling returns are not caused by changes in the sample design and reduced willingness to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313940
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Returns to apprenticeship training in Austria : evidence from failed firms
Fersterer, Josef (contributor);  … - 2007
Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. There is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and there might be an important element of selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561669
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Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries
Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Shaikh, Azeem M.; … - 2022
It is often desired to rank different populations according to the value of some feature of each population. For example, it may be desired to rank neighborhoods according to some measure of intergenerational mobility or countries according to some measure of academic achievement. These rankings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012813620
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Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries
Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Shaikh, Azeem M.; … - 2021
It is often desired to rank different populations according to the value of some feature of each population. For example, it may be desired to rank neighborhoods according to some measure of intergenerational mobility or countries according to some measure of academic achievement. These rankings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500502
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Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries
Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Shaikh, Azeem M.; … - 2023
It is often desired to rank different populations according to the value of some feature of each population. For example, it may be desired to rank neighborhoods according to some measure of intergenerational mobility or countries according to some measure of academic achievement. These rankings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013500955