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Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015

little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we …

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Individual investments in education and health : policy responses and interactions

Carbone, Jared C.; Kverndokk, Snorre - 2016

Empirical studies show that years of schooling are positively correlated with good health. The implication may go from education to health, from health to education, or from factors that influence both variables. We formalize a model that determines an individual's demand for knowledge and...

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Life in shackles? : the quantitative implications of reforming the educational loan system

Heijdra, Ben J.; Kindermann, Fabian; Reijnders, Laurie S. M. - 2014

In this paper we conduct a quantitative analysis of a number of stylized educational loan systems. We develop a stochastic general equilibrium model of a closed economy with a competitive firm sector and a government that levies taxes and administers educational loans. Individuals are...

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Substitution between individual and source country characteristics : social capital, culture, and US labor market outcomes among immigrant women

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2015 - Revised June 2014

Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...

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Economic gains for US states from educational reform

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015

There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...

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The world's rust belts : the heterogeneous effects of deindustrialization on 1,993 cities in six countries

Gagliardi, Luisa; Moretti, Enrico; Serafinelli, Michel - 2023

We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of manufacturing employment in the year of its country's...

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Student abilities during the expansion of US education

Hendricks, Lutz; Schoellman, Todd - 2013

The US experienced two dramatic changes in the structure of education in a fifty year period. The first was a large expansion of educational attainment; the second, an increase in test score gaps between college bound and non-college bound students. We study the impact of these two trends on the...

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Productivity shocks and aggregate fluctuations in an estimated endogenous growth model with human capital

Malley, James R.; Woitek, Ulrich - 2011

Employing an endogenous growth model with human capital, this paper explores how productivity shocks in the goods and human capital producing sectors contribute to explaining aggregate fluctuations in output, consumption, investment and hours. Given the importance of accounting for both the...

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Should we give up after Solyndra? : optimal technology R&D portfolios under uncertainty

Webster, Mort; Fisher-Vanden, Karen; Popp, David; … - 2015

Global climate change and other environmental challenges require the development of new energy technologies with lower emissions. In the near-term, R&D investments, either by government or the private sector, can bring down the costs of these lower emission technologies. However, the results of...

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Who stands on the shoulders of Chinese (scientific) giants? : evidence from chemistry

Qiu, Shumin; Steinwender, Claudia; Azoulay, Pierre - 2023

by the number of publications originating from Chinese research institutions. China's rise in science has the potential … it. In this manuscript, we study how fertile Chinese research is, as measured by citations. Using publication and … research, Chinese PIs' articles receive 28% fewer citations from US researchers. Our results imply that US researchers do not …

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