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. …

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 …

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 …

actually decreased through time. For the older cohort, we then explore the role of age, education, gender, and occupational …

also how skill formation or education affects unemployment among the remaining uneducated. We have developed a general … sector and an informal sector which absorbs unemployed workers at a flexible wage rate. In this set up greater education for …