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China's Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top
Constant, Amelie; Meng, Jingzhou; Tien, Bienvenue; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
In this paper we provide an overview of China’s human capital strategy and educational achievements over the last two … decades. While every one acknowledges China as an economic superpower, very few are aware of or realize China’s notable … Chinese modern higher education system China has made tremendous strides in education both domestically and internationally …
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Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal
Carneiro, Pedro; Koussihouèdé, Oswald; Lahire, Nathalie; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 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...
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Women, Medieval Commerce, and the Education Gender Gap
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
We investigate the historical determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in the late nineteenth century, immediately following the country’s Unification. We use a comprehensive newly-assembled database including 69 provinces over twenty-year sub-samples covering the 1861-1901 period. We...
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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....
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Brain drain in globalization: A general equilibrium analysis from the sending countries’ perspective
Docquier, Frédéric; Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-Ling - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
High-skilled emigration has been found to affect developing economies via different channels. With a calibrated general equilibrium framework, this paper finds that the short-run impact of brain drain on resident human capital is extremely crucial, as it does not only determine the number of...
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Human Capital and the Future of Transition Economies
Spagat, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
Transition economies have an initial condition of high human capital relative to GDP per capita, giving them high growth potential. In the model, at a good equilibrium a large number of children of well-educated parents take advantage of their family backgrounds and invest substantially in their...
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Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The Effect of Sex-Specific Earnings on Sex Imbalance
Qian, Nancy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
-Mao reforms in China to estimate the effects of total income and sex-specific income on sex ratios of surviving children. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124182
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The Dynamics of Exclusion and Fiscal Conservatism
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
This paper studies the impact of income inequality on fiscal conservatism when an increase in inequality affects the bottom portion of income distribution. It is argued that, contrary to what is generally assumed in the economic literature, inequality will then be associated with less, rather...
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Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
The British Industrial Revolution triggered a reversal in the social order whereby the landed elite was replaced by industrial capitalists rising from the middle classes as the economically dominant group. Many observers have linked this transformation to the contrast in values between a...
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Earnings, Schooling and Economic Reform: New Econometric Evidence
Campos, Nauro F; Jolliffe, Dean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
How does the relationship between earnings and schooling change with the introduction of comprehensive economic reform? This Paper uses a unique dataset (covering about 3 million Hungarian wage earners, from 1986 to 1998) and a novel procedure to correct sample selection bias (based on DiNardo,...
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