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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023 - Revised 11/30/2023
This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings … study the earnings in five independent professional practices. Based on the net present value technique, Becker (1964 … also for other demographic groups. The first regression-based approach is the development of the schooling-earnings …
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Son preference and human capital investment among China's rural-urban migrant households
Lin, Carl; Sun, Yan; Xing, Chunbing - 2018
We use several datasets to study whether son preference prevails in the human capital investment among Chinese rural-urban migrant households. We find that son preference exists among the rural migrants' households and that it caused lower probabilities relative to that of their boy counterparts...
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Human capital formation, income inequality and growth
Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zilcha, Itzhak - 2001
The paper studies the determinants of income distribution and growth in an overlapping generations economy withheterogenous households. Our framework has the following main features:heterogeneity of consumers with respect to wealth and parental human capital;intergenerational transfers,...
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Linguistic traits and human capital formation
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2020
This research establishes empirically that existing cross-language variations in the structure of the future tense and the presence of grammatical gender affected human capital accumulation. Exploiting variations in the dominant languages among migrants from the same countries of origin, the...
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Time allocation of daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law in India : the role of education as bargaining power
Bhattacharya, Leena - 2023
The paper addresses the less-researched topic of intrahousehold dynamics of female in-laws in developing countries by focusing on the bargaining between mother-in-law and daughter-inlaw and its influence on the latter's time allocation. Using the first nationally representative Time Use Survey...
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Can HIV alter the quantity-quality switch and delay the fertility transition in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Gori, Luca; Lupi, Enrico; Manfredi, Piero; Sodini, Mauro - 2017
According to the conventional theory of the demographic transition, mortality decline has represented the major trigger for fertility decline and eventually sustained economic development. In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the HIV/AIDS epidemic has had a devastating impact on mortality, by...
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Optimal income taxation with endogenous human capital
Jacobs, Bas - 2002
This paper augments the theory of optimal linear income taxation by taking into account human capital accumulation as a dimension of labor supply. The distribution of earning potentials is endogenous because agents differ in the ability to learn. Taxation affects utilization rates of human...
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A bit of salt a trace of life : gender norms and the impact of a salt iodization program on human capital formation of school aged children
Deng, Zichen; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2020 - Current version: Tuesday 8th September, 2020
This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children in China. Exploiting province and time variation, we find a strong positive impact on cognition for girls and no effects for boys. For non-cognitive skills, we find the...
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A historical note on the assimilation rates of foreign-born women in the U.S.
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Dowhan, Dan; Liu, Xingfei - 2023
Using historical, longitudinal data on individuals, we track the earnings of immigrant and U.S.-born women. Following … individuals, instead of synthetic cohorts, avoids biases in earnings-growth estimates caused by compositional changes in the … 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, immigrant women, as previously found for immigrant men, have high earnings growth. …
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Education, growth and income inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2003 - This version: February 2003
Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...
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