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Human capital plays an important role in the theory of economic growth, but it has been difficult to measure this abstract concept. We survey the psychological literature on cross-cultural IQ tests, and conclude that modern intelligence tests are well-suited for measuring an important form of a...
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scarce, parental investments in their children's education may not be driven entirely by poverty and credit constraints. We … offer evidence that children's participation in child labor and schooling responds to economic returns to education in India …, which suggests implementing policies that raise the economic benefits of education - such as creating more high-skilled jobs …
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This paper investigates the impact of human capital on economic growth in Guatemala through the application of an error-correction methodology. Two channels are analyzed, by which human capital is expected to influence growth. A better-educated labor force appears to have a positive and...
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There has been a lot of works on corruption cases. We must think that corruption is a cultural aspect in a social life. We cannot separate the corruption with the cultural system where the corruption raised. Indonesia has been recorded to be one of the countries of the worst economic and...
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There has been a lot of works on corruption cases. We must think that corruption is a cultural aspect in a social life. We cannot separate the corruption with the cultural system where the corruption raised. Indonesia has been recorded to be one of the countries of the worst economic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561522
education away from internationally applicable education towards country-specific skills. This would mean educating too few … income-contingent loans, collected also from migrants. By giving the providers of internationally applicable education a … internationally applicable education. …
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last decades while others have not. The explanation is based on the link between the quality of education and induced … ratio of human capital to labour than a country where the quality of education is more equal across education levels. These …
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This is a theoretical study of human-capital formation, where parental, as well as public investments are essential. Policy influence rich and poor parents differently when they make educational decisions. Rich parents allocate resources efficiently between physical bequests and educational...
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I analyze simultaneous voting on the wage tax rate and investment in public education using a model with three … overlapping generations and ability differences inside each cohort. Wage tax revenue finances public education and social security …
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Teacher quality is widely believed to be important for education, despite little evidence that teachers' credentials …
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