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Climate changes affect human capital
Caruso, Germán; De Marcos, Inés; Noy, Ilan - 2023
: direct effects on health, nutrition, and wellbeing, and indirect effects through changes in economic systems, markets, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014251487
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Long-Term Impacts of Growth and Development Monitoring: Evidence from Routine Health Examinations in Early Childhood
Liang, Yinhe; Peng, Xiaobo; Sun, Meiping Aggie - 2024
monitoring through routine health checkups for all young children (0-6 years) in China. Using data on the program's county … provide evidence of several underlying mechanisms, including improved physical and mental health, better educational outcomes …, increased cognitive skills, and sustained use of routine health checkups among adolescents. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014464217
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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 health based on the causal effects, and study the impacts on the individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011554425
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Biological well-being in late 19th century Philippines
Bassino, Jean-Pascal; Dovis, Marion; Komlos, John - 2015
This paper investigates the biological standard of living toward the end of Spanish rule. We investigate levels, trends, and determinants of physical stature from the birth cohorts of the 1860s to the 1890s using data on 23,000 Filipino soldiers enlisted by the U.S. military between 1901 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011292971
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Health and economic growth : reconciling the micro and macro evidence
Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Kotschy, Rainer; … - 2022
Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The … the macroeconomic return to health. We reconcile the two approaches by controlling for the indirect effects of health … of health. Our results show that the macroeconomic return to health lies in the range of plausible microeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013262768
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Health capital provision and human capital accumulation
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2020
This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility …, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with … an additional factor that affects children's human capital, which is health. I analyze the overall society-wide effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171809
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Does military draft discourage enrollment in higher education? : evidence from OECD countries
Keller, Katarina; Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2009
Using data from 1960-2000 for OECD countries, we analyze the impact of compulsory military service on the demand for higher education, measured by students enrolled in tertiary education as a share of the working-age population. Based on a theoretical model, we hypothesize that military draft...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003897549
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Optimal higher education enrollment and productivity externalities in a two-sector model
Meier, Volker; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - 2012
We investigate externalities in higher education enrollment over the course of development in a two-sector model. Each sector works with only one type of labor, skilled or unskilled, and individuals are differentiated according to their cost of acquiring human capital. Both sectors exhibit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570881
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Student loans : when is risk sharing desirable?
Eckwert, Bernhard; Zilcha, Itzhak - 2016 - Final version October 2015
In higher education, pure credit market funding leads to underinvestment due to insufficient risk pooling, while pure income-contingent loan funding leads to overinvestment. We analyze whether funding diversity - a market structure in which credit markets coexist alongside income-contingent loan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416385
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Private investment in higher education : comparing alternative funding schemes
Eckwert, Bernhard (contributor); Zilcha, Itzhak (contributor) - 2008
This paper uses an overlapping generations framework to analyze the implications of different financing regimes in the education sector for human capital formation and economic welfare. Agents privately invest in education after they have received a noisy information signal about their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003751100