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Standard economic theory predicts that firms will not invest in general training and will underinvest in specific … training. Empirical evidence, however, indicates that firms do invest in general training of their workers. Evidence from … laboratory experiments points to less underinvestment in specific training than theory predicts. We propose a simple model in …
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explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health … and Retirement Study reveals that individuals with lower levels of education and cognitive functioning report survival …
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have implications for education policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. …
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Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …
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The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately …
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Impact evaluations of development programmes usually focus on a comparison of participants with a control group. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the programme’s impact. Based on a unique large-scale quantitative...
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illustrate its feasibility with an example from the education sector in Zambia. …
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In this paper we hypothesize that education is associated with a higher efficiency of health investment, yet that this … COPD, education still plays a role. …
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In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have toenrol in a training program which is in …
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Journal of Economics"</A>, 112(3), 618-39.<P>The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per …. There is a systematic difference in the education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data …
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