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Economic Opportunities and Gender Differences in Human Capital : Experimental Evidence for India
Jensen, Robert T. - 2010
, and difficulty in identifying which of several mechanisms (returns, bargaining power, income, etc.) link the two. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462632
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Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2007
This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464963
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Implications of an Economic Theory of Conflict : Hindu-Muslim Violence in India
Mitra, Anirban - 2013
on Hindu-Muslim violence in India. Our main result is that an increase in per-capita Muslim expenditures generates a …. These findings speak to the origins of Hindu-Muslim violence in post-Independence India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459571
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Death and Development
Lorentzen, Peter - 2005
better health care implies that mortality could be the source of a poverty trap. In our regressions, adult mortality explains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467057
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Growth, Urbanization and Poverty Reduction in India
Datt, Gaurav - 2016
India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty …Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for … measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with both higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456690
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Black Americans' Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation : New Evidence on the Significance of 40 Acres
Collins, William J.; Holtkamp, Nicholas C.; Wanamaker, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The US Civil War ended in 1865 without the distribution of land or compensation to those formerly enslaved--a decision often seen as a cornerstone of racial inequality. We build a dataset to observe Black households' landholdings in 1880, a key component of their wealth, alongside a sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172157
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Human Capital, Heterogeneity, and Estimated Degrees of Intergenerational Mobility
Han, Song - 2000
under the assumption that parental income is the main source of heterogeneity. We explicitly model the variability and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471089
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Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects : The Mincer Equation and Beyond
Heckman, James J. - 2005
This paper considers the interpretation of "Mincer rates of return." We test and reject the Mincer model. It fails to track the time series of true returns. We show how repeated cross section and panel data improves the ability of analysts to estimate the ex ante and ex post marginal rate of...
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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2015
, population, income growth and distribution, and migration trends are endogenous. We derive new insights about the impact of … migration on long-term income growth and distribution, and the net benefits to natives in both destination and source countries …
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Four Facts about Human Capital
Deming, David J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper synthesizes what economists have learned about human capital since Becker (1962) into four stylized facts. First, human capital explains at least one-third of the variation in labor earnings within countries and at least half of the variation across countries. Second, human capital...
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