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What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States
Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2016
American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications … of the spatial equilibrium hypothesis, the central organizing idea of urban economics, are not rejected. The India data …
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Smart Cities : Quality of Life, Productivity, and the Growth Effects of Human Capital
Shapiro, Jesse M. - 2005
From 1940 to 1990, a 10 percent increase in a metropolitan area's concentration of college-educated residents was associated with a .8 percent increase in subsequent employment growth. Instrumental variables estimates support a causal relationship between college graduates and employment growth,...
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The Rise of the Skilled City
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2003
For more than a century, educated cities have grown more quickly than comparable cities with less human capital. This fact survives a battery of other control variables, metropolitan area fixed effects and tests for reverse causality. We also find that skilled cities are growing because they are...
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Human Capital and Industrialization : Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment
Squicciarini, Mara P. - 2014
While human capital is a strong predictor of economic development today, its importance for the Industrial Revolution has typically been assessed as minor. To resolve this puzzling contrast, we differentiate average human capital (literacy) from upper-tail knowledge. As a proxy for the...
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Human capital and the Indian software industry
Arora, Ashish - 2010
Though previous studies have noted the role of skilled labor in the growth of the Indian software industry, they have not empirically investigated its importance. In this study we study the effect of the supply of engineers, measured by engineering baccalaureate capacity, on the regional growth...
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Economic Opportunities and Gender Differences in Human Capital : Experimental Evidence for India
Jensen, Robert T. - 2010
Gender differences in health and education are a concern for a number of developing countries. While standard theory predicts human capital should respond to market returns, social norms (e.g., disapproval of women working outside the home) may weaken or even sever this link for girls. Though...
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Brain Drain or Brain Bank? The Impact of Skilled Emigration on Poor-Country Innovation
Agrawal, Ajay - 2008
-location and diaspora effects for accessing knowledge. Then, using patent citation data associated with inventions from India, we … access, on average. However, knowledge access conferred by the diaspora is particularly valuable in the production of India …
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Consumption Risk and Human Capital Accumulation in India
Foster, Andrew D. - 2017
the household. We test the model using data from rural India, focusing particularly on the schooling of girls. We find …
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Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India
Attanasio, Orazio - 2015
We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, where over 70 million …
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Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital
Brown, Christina L.; Kaur, Supreet; Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Schooling may build human capital not only by teaching academic skills, but by expanding the capacity for cognition itself. We focus specifically on cognitive endurance: the ability to sustain effortful mental activity over a continuous stretch of time. As motivation, we document that globally...
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