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Birth order and human capital development: evidence from Ecuador
Haan, Monique de; Plug, Erik J. S.; Rosero, José - 2012
In this paper we examine the effect of birth order on human capital development in Ecuador using a large national database together with self-collected survey data. Using family fixed effects models we find significant positive birth order effects; earlier born children stay behind in their...
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Dynamic skill accumulation, comparative advantages, compulsory schooling, and earnings
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2011
the macro literature on education and growth. The fraction of the population more efficient at producing skills in the …) effect education on growth measured in the empirical literature. -- compulsory schooling reforms ; dynamic skill accumulation … ; comparative advantages ; returns to schooling ; education and growth ; dynamic discrete choice ; dynamic programming …
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Drought of opportunities : contemporaneous and long-term impacts of rainfall shocks on human capital
Shah, Manisha; Steinberg, Bryce Millett - 2015
Higher wages are generally thought to increase human capital production, particularly in the developing world. We introduce a simple model of human capital production in which investments and time allocation differ by age. Using data on test scores and schooling from rural India, we show that...
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Workfare and human capital investment : evidence from India
Shah, Manisha; Steinberg, Bryce Millett - 2015
We examine the effect of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), one of the largest workfare programs in the world, on human capital investment. Since NREGS increases labor demand, it could increase the opportunity cost of schooling, lowering human capital investment even as...
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Dynamic skill accumulation, education policies and the return to schooling
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2017
-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours worked, cognitive skills (AFQT scores) and … individual differences in hours worked and education explain the remaining part almost equally. We show how our model is a … education. Finally, because policy changes induce simultaneous movements in observed choices and average per-year effects …
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Teacher expectations matter
Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Gershenson, Seth; Kang, Kyungmin - 2016
We develop and estimate a joint model of the education and teacher-expectation production functions that identifies …
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Child labor and the education of a society
Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - 2001
We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital …
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Discipline reform, school culture, and student achievement
Craig, Ashley C.; Martin, David - 2023
Does relaxing strict school discipline improve student achievement, or lead to classroom disorder? We study a 2012 reform in New York City public middle schools that eliminated suspensions for non-violent, disorderly behavior. Math scores of students in more-affected schools rose by 0.05...
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Risk-adjusted returns to education
Delaney, Judith - 2019
education. Accounting for non-employment risk leads to substantial changes in returns while wage risk has little impact. The … employment when calculating returns to education leads to biased estimates. …
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Education and early career outcomes of second-generation immigrants in France
Belzil, Christian (contributor);  … - 2008
We estimate a flexible dynamic model of education choices and early career employment outcomes of the French population …
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