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Measuring investment in human capital formation : an experimental analysis of early life outcomes

Doyle, Orla; Harmon, Colm; Heckman, James J.; Logue, … - 2013

The literature on skill formation and human capital development clearly demonstrates that early investment in children …

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Should early health investments work? : evidence from an RCT of a home visiting programme

Coy, Deirdre; Doyle, Orla - 2020

Evidence for the short-term impact of early intervention on childhood health is weak and inconsistent. Using rigorous methods, careful hypothesis setting, and socioeconomic contextualisation, we examine the impact of an Irish home visiting programme on child health. The treatment provides...

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The consequences of miscarriage on parental investments

Bütikofer, Aline; Coy, Deirdre; Doyle, Orla; Ginja, Rita - 2024

Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian … market attachment, it has limited effects on children born after the loss. This suggests that investment in the next …

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Intergenerational mobility and self-selection of asylum seekers in Germany

Kolb, Michael; Neidhöfer, Guido; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2019 - This version, 13 June 2019

We exploit a novel survey of recently arrived asylum seekers in Germany in order to estimate the degree of intergenerational mobility in education among refugees and compare it to the educational mobility of similar-aged individuals in their region of origin. The findings show that the refugees...

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Working life and human capital investment : causal evidence from pension reform

Gohl, Niklas; Haan, Peter; Kurz, Elisabeth; Weinhardt, Felix - 2019

In this paper we present a life-cycle model with human capital investment during working life through training and provide a novel empirical test of human capital theory. Using a sizable pension reform which shifts the retirement age between two adjacent cohorts by three years, we document...

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Regional favoritism and human capital accumulation in Africa

Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hufschmidt, Patrick - 2021

We study the long-run implications of regional and ethnic favoritism in Africa. Combining geocoded individual-level survey data from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) with data on national leaders’ birthplaces across 41 African countries, we explore the educational attainment of adults...

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Maternal depression and child human capital: a genetic instrumental-variable approach

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone; … - 2021

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The impact of parental health shocks on child schooling and labor : evidence from Thailand

Sasiwooth Wongmonta - 2023

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Mentoring and schooling decisions : causal evidence

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020

Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to diff erent quality … children are signi ficantly less likely to enter the academic track if they come from low socio-economic status (SES) families …-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …

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Human capital creates insider power

Muysken, John; Zwick, Thomas - 1999

This paper demonstrates that insiders can erect barriers to entry and skim rents by sinking costs in human capital when labour markets are otherwise perfectly contestable. The sunk costs nature of human capital investments may result from the need to satisfy ever increasing specialised skill...

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