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Human capital externalities and employment differences across metropolitan areas of the US
Winters, John V. - 2012
suggest that the local human capital level has positive externalities on the probability of labor force participation and …. -- employment ; labor force participation ; human capital externalities ; agglomeration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009627341
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STEM graduates, human capital externalities, and wages in the US
Winters, John V. - 2013
availability has thus far prevented researchers from directly connecting STEM education to human capital externalities. This paper …Previous research suggests that the local stock of human capital creates positive externalities within local labor … positive wage externalities, but STEM graduates create much larger externalities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228785
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Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls?
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis". An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317637
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The effects of computers on children's social development and school participation : evidence from a randomized control experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Kalil, Ariel - 2016
Concerns over the perceived negative impacts of computers on social development among children are prevalent but largely uninformed by plausibly causal evidence. We provide the first test of this hypothesis using a large-scale randomized control experiment in which more than one thousand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594152