The aim of this paper is to study the long-run effects of a longevity increase on individual decisions about education …

little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we … develop detailed measures of state human capital based on school attainment from census micro data and on cognitive skills … attainment and cognitive skills. Similar results emerge from growth accounting analyses …

This paper investigates Becker, Hornung and Woessmann's recent claim that education had an important causal effect on … problems, notably the omission of relevant variables which leads to serious bias in the estimated effect of education. When … these problems are corrected, the conclusions of Becker, Hornung and Woessmann no longer hold. Education did not play an …

This paper investigates Becker, Hornung and Woessmann’s recent claim that education had an important causal effect on … problems, notably the omission of relevant variables which leads to serious bias in the estimated effect of education. When … these problems are corrected, the conclusions of Becker, Hornung and Woessmann no longer hold. Education did not play an …

In contexts such as education and sports, skill-accumulation of individuals over time crucially depends on the amount … policies in a model of endogenous skill formation where, apart from their ability to transform training into skills …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … skills, while firms require and value different combinations of these skills. Assuming that match productivity exhibits … worker-job complementarity, we estimate how interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills map into job offers, unemployment and …

In contexts such as education and sports, skill-accumulation of individuals over time crucially depends on the amount … policies in a model of endogenous skill formation where, apart from their ability to transform training into skills …

include skilled human capital (number of highly educated workers), general manager's education and tenure, and management team …'s education and age. We find that skilled human capital has a significant positive effect on firms' innovation, while the … role in firm innovation in metropolitan cities, while it is the General Manager's education that has a positive and …