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How risky is investment in human capital?

Hartog, Joop; Ophem, Hans van; Bajdechi, Simona Maria - 2004

skewed. Our best guess of ex ante risk in university education is a coefficient ofvariation of about 0.3, comparable to that …

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Subsidizing enjoyable education

Dur, Robert A. J.; Glazer, Amihai - 2007

College education is not only an investment; for many people it also generates consumption benefits. If these benefits … students, even when the colleges lack market power. Moreover, when the social return to education exceeds the private return …

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Human capital and optimal positive taxation of capital income

Jacobs, Bas; Bovenberg, Ary Lans - 2005

This paper analyzes optimal linear taxes on capital and labor incomes in a life-cyclemodel of human capital investment, financial savings, and labor supply with heteroge-nous individuals. A dual income tax with a positive marginal tax rate on not onlylabor income but also capital income is...

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Optimal linear income taxation and education subsidies under skill-biased technical change

Jacobs, Bas; Thuemmel, Uwe - 2020

This paper studies how linear tax and education policy should optimally respond to skill-biased technical change (SBTC … effects due to wage-(de)compression, and iii) education distortions. Analytically, the effect of SBTC on these three … distributional losses, and it increases education distortions. Also, SBTC lowers optimal education subsidies, since SBTC generates …

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Exposure to intimate partner violence and children's dynamic skill accumulation : evidence from a UK longitudinal study

Anderberg, Dan; Moroni, Gloria - 2020

Children are increasingly recognized as secondary victims of intimate partner violence. This paper uses a unique UK longitudinal child development survey to study the relationship between verbal and physical abuse experienced by mothers and children's development up to the age of seven....

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Less school (costs), more (female) education? : lessons from Egypt reducing years of compulsory schooling

Elsayed, Ahmed; Marie, Olivier - 2020

unexpectedly increased education attainment as more students chose to complete the next school stage. This impact is almost … labor market opportunity and marriage quality, as measured by bride price received and household bargaining power. We … reduced school costs combined with strongly non-linear returns to female education. …

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Human capital formation : the importance of endogenous longevity

Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2022

We present a theory of human capital, with its two most essential components, health capital and, what we term, skill capital, endogenously determined within the model. Using the theory, and a calibrated version of it, we uncover and highlight an important economic mechanism driving...

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