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Climate change severely impacts critical facets of human capital across the life cycle. This is particularly alarming as both the frequency and intensity of extreme weather shocks continue to increase, and extremes appear to be the main channel of causality. At the same time, human capital has a...
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development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function-physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology …
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We propose an innovation-driven growth model in which education is determined by family background and cognitive … ability. We show that compulsory schooling can move a society from elite education to mass education, which then triggers …, compulsory education is implemented first and triggers the onset of market R&D. According to the British way, market R&D is …
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social security schemes may a¤ect welfare, human capital investment and labor supply. We analyze and compare three different …
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The aim of this paper is to study the long-run effects of a longevity increase on individual decisions about education …
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Mobility of highly-skilled workers affects and is affected by labor market conditions, taxes, and other policies. This …
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The US experienced two dramatic changes in the structure of education in a fifty year period. The first was a large …
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This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this finding...
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shocks across the life cycle on labor market outcomes and major life decisions: human capital investment, mobility, family … structure, and retirement. Our results reveal substantial heterogeneity on labor market effects and life decisions in response … relocate to new labor markets, individuals in the middle of their careers reduce fertility and adjust family formation …
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