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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 - 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/10012952090
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Trends in quality-adjusted skill premia in the United States, 1960 - 2000
Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae - 2008 - This version: September 2008
This paper presents new evidence that increases in college enrollment lead to a decline in the average quality of college graduates between 1960 and 2000, resulting in a decrease of 8 percentage points in the college premium. The standard demand and supply framework (Katz and Murphy, 1992, Card...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003817244
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Estimating marginal returns to education
Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James J.; Vytlacil, Edward - 2010
the return to schooling. Some marginal policy changes inducing students into college produce very low returns. -- Returns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688882
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Average and marginal returns to upper secondary schooling in Indonesia
Carneiro, Pedro; Lokshin, Michael; Ridao-Cano, Cristóbal; … - 2011
This paper estimates average and marginal returns to schooling in Indonesia using a non-parametric selection model. Identification of the model is given by exogenous geographic variation in access to upper secondary schools. We find that the return to upper secondary schooling varies widely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009387870
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Career progression, economic downturns and skills
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - 2013
This paper analyzes the career progression of skilled and unskilled workers, with a focus on how careers are affected by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions. Using detailed administrative data for Germany for numerous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009715115
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Growth, distance to frontier and composition of human capital
Vandenbussche, Jérôme; Aghion, Philippe; Meghir, Costas - In: Journal of economic growth 11 (2006) 2, pp. 97-127
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003373849
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Decentralizing education resources : school grants in Senegal
Carneiro, Pedro; Koussihouèdé, Oswald; Lahire, Nathalie; … - 2015
The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010499532
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Decentralizing education resources : school grants in Senegal
Carneiro, Pedro; Koussihouede, Oswald; Lahire, Nathalie; … - 2015
The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501982