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Human capital is almost always identified as a crucial ingredient for growing economies, but empirical investigations of cross-national growth have done little to clarify the dimensions of relevant human capital or any implications for policy. This paper concentrates on the importance of labor...
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We conduct a panel data analysis of 74 countries over 1980 2000 to investigate whether population health affects … foreign direct investment inflows. Our main finding is that health has a positive and significant effect on such inflows for … low- and middle-income countries. This finding is consistent with the view that health is an integral component of human …
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-adjusted educational attainment among the working age population based on their health status during the time they did their education …Recent medical research shows that health is highly influential for learning and the ability to think laterally …; however, past economic studies have failed to empirically examine the influence of health on learning, schooling, and ideas …
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starting in 1940. In order to do so, we propose a new methodology for the construction of index numbers in panel data sets. Our … method is based on an optimal approach by which we choose the 'best' set index numbers by minimizing the expected estimation …
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to become an entrepreneur and the level of employment of newly created businesses. We focus on the interaction between …
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-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. I pay a good deal of attention to the effects of education on health …I explore the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Examples of … over time, own (adult) health and inputs into the production of own health, fertility, and child quality or well …
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This paper considers the sources of skill formation in a modern economy and emphasizes the importance of both cognitive and noncognitive skills in producing economic and social success and the importance of both formal academic institutions and families and firms as sources of learning. Skill...
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also by income, since apparently, human capital in the world is not evenly distributed across different regions or …
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Knowing the degree of substitutability between schooling groups is essential to understanding the role of human capital in income differences and to assessing the economic impact of such policies as schooling subsidies, immigration systems, or redistributive taxes. We derive a lower bound for...
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periods. Human capital analysis deals with acquired capabilities which are developed through formal and informal education at …
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