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Naturalisation and investments in children's human capital: Evidence from a natural experiment

von Haaren-Giebel, Friederike - 2016

This paper assesses educational attainment of immigrant children, in particular evaluating whether naturalised parents invest more in their children's human capital than non-naturalised parents. Findings of the literature indicate that citizenship is associated with lower return migration...

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Money or Fun? Why Students Want to Pursue Further Education

Belfield, Chris; Boneva, Teodora; Rauh, Christopher; … - 2016

We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full-time education. However, the main driver is the...

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Public wash programs, long-run child development, and intergenerational mobility: New evidence from rural People's Republic of China

Wang, Dongqin; Zou, Eddy Weijian - 2023

Using individual-level longitudinal data from 1989 to 2015, we examine the long-run effects of nationwide water plant construction and household-level toilet subsidy programs in rural People's Republic of China (PRC) on children's education, health, and nutrition. We exploit the differential...

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Intergenerational trends in educational and income mobility in the United States of America since the 1960s

Ernst, Ekkehard; Langot, François; Merola, Rossana; … - 2024

Concerns about widening inequality have increased attention on the topic of equality of opportunities and intergenerational mobility. We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to analyse how educational and income mobility has evolved in the United States of America. We show...

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Firm Knowledge, Neighborhood Diversity and Innovation

Wixe, Sofia - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

This paper tests the importance of firm level knowledge and neighborhood diversity, as a source for localized knowledge … points to the importance of absorptive capacity. However, firm characteristics, such as the knowledge of the own employees …

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La escuela importa: Incidencia de los factores asociados a la Escuela Pública sobre las competencias de los estudiantes de PISA 2006

Rocha, Pablo Da; Martínez, Juan Pablo; Rímoli, Philippe - Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias … - 2011

This paper analyzes the factors affecting the acquisition of skills of the teenagers who took the PISA 2006 test and completed their primary education at a public school. The analysis is based on the estimation of an educational production function, taking into account the data emerging from the...

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Education and Economic Growth: an Empirical Analysis of Interdependencies and Impacts Based on Panel Data

SON, Liana; NOJA, Graţiela Georgiana; RITIVOIU, Mihai; … - In: Timisoara Journal of Economics and Business 6 (2013) 19, pp. 39-54

The paper focuses particularly on proving that education can lead to economic growth within five groups of EU Member States. Our study reviews the human capital from its quantitative (years of study) and qualitative (education quality) dimensions, the empirical panel data analysis being based on...

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MAIN ASPECTS CONCERNING INTELLECTUAL SERVICES PRODUCTIVITY WITH FOCUS TO EDUCATION

Alexandru, Jivan; Janeta, Weisz - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2012) 2, pp. 214-218

paper starts with the framing in the context of the knowledge based economy and its requirements concerning scientific …

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Human capital and economic activity in urban America

Abel, Jaison R.; Gabe, Todd M. - 2008

area GDP per capita. Second, we develop measures of human capital that reflect the types of knowledge within U ….S. metropolitan areas. Regional knowledge stocks related to the provision of producer services and information technology are …

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Sources of Knowledge Used by Entrepreneurial Firms in the European High-Tech Sector

Amoroso, Sara; Audretsch, David B.; Link, Albert N. - 2017

/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the … crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …

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