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Growth, Distance to Frontier and Composition of Human Capital
Aghion, Philippe; Meghir, Costas; Vandenbussche, Jérôme - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
the two separate margins of primary/secondary and tertiary education. Interestingly, the latter type of schooling proves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792394
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Human Capital In Growth Regressions: How Much Difference Does Data Quality Make?
de la Fuente, Angel; Doménech, Rafael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
We construct a revised version of the Barro and Lee (1996) data set for a sample of OECD countries using previously unexploited sources and following a heuristic approach to obtain plausible time profiles for attainment levels by removing sharp breaks in the data that seem to reflect changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666682
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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This Paper studies a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom; where within a given occupation it may harm some workers while...
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Human Capital in Growth Regressions: How Much Difference Does Data Quality Make? An Update and Further Results
de la Fuente, Angel; Doménech, Rafael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
We construct estimates of educational attainment for a sample of OECD countries using previously unexploited sources. We follow a heuristic approach to obtain plausible time profiles for attainment levels by removing sharp breaks in the data that seem to reflect changes in classification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498069
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Immigration and the School System
Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host countries. There is a now a large empirical literature, but very little theoretical work on this topic. We introduce a model of family immigration in a framework where school...
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Incentives, resources and the organization of the school system
Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel; Cabrales, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We study a model where student eort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. We can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside options will...
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Does Longevity Cause Growth?
Hazan, Moshe; Zoabi, Hosny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
’s future income proportionally at all levels of education, leaving the relative return between quality and quantity unaffected …. This result is consistent with historical evidence that longevity began to increase long before education did. Our theory … also casts doubts on recent findings about a positive effect of health on education. This is because health raises the …
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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions
Alessie, Rob; Portela, Miguel; Teulings, Coen N - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
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Marrying Your Mom: Preference Transmission and Women's Labour and Education Choices
Fernández, Raquel; Fogli, Alessandra; Olivetti, Claudia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
examines how it affected women’s education and labour choices. We present empirical evidence based on GSS data that favours our …
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Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School
Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema; Ryan, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper combines a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and increase learning. In 57 schools in India, randomly chosen out of 113, a teacher’s daily attendance was verified through photographs with time...
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