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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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Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...
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This paper estimates the relationship between differences in skills measured among within-country ethnic groups and individual human capital accumulation in eight African countries. Our results show that the skills of an individual in these countries depends more on the human capital levels of...
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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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This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
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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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education with and without capital markets integration. First, we explore how regimes of education provision - public, private …-run effects of capital markets integration, in equilibrium, on the optimal provision of education and growth. Third, we examine a … competition game where countries compete in the provision of public education. …
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