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Mother'S Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital : Evidence from College Openings and Longitudinal Data

Currie, Janet; Moretti, Enrico - 2021

We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital Statistics Natality files for … 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential channels through which maternal education may improve birth … education on changes in birth outcomes. Second, we have compiled a new data set on openings of two and four year colleges …

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Recovery from an early-life shock through improved access to schools

Bharati, Tushar; Chin, Seungwoo; Jung, Dawoon - 2020

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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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Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India

Attanasio, Orazio - 2015

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, based on the Young Lives … Survey. India has over 70 million children aged 0-5 who are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production … investments affect cognitive development at all ages, but more so for younger children. Investments also have an impact on health …

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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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Optimal redistribution and education signaling

Bastani, Spencer; Blumḳin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - 2024

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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America

Neidhöfer, Guido - 2016

economic growth and public education is evaluated: both have a positive, significant, and substantial effect on …

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Democracy and the quality of economic institutions : theory and evidence

Krieger, Tommy - 2022

We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect of democracies on economic institutional quality...

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On the effects of schooling vintage on experience-earnings profiles : theory and evidence

Neuman, Shoshana; Weiss, Avi - 1994 - Rev

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Technological Change and the Skill Acquisition of Young Workers

Bartel, Ann P.; Sicherman, Nachum - 2021

Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) and six proxies for industry rates of technological change, we study the impact of technological change on skill accumulation among young male workers in the manufacturing sector during the time period 1987 through 1992. Production workers...

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