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A brief introduction to human capital measures
Liu, Gang; Fraumeni, Barbara M. - 2020
the World Bank (Lange et al., 2018) and by the United Nations Environmental Program and the Urban Institute of Kyushu … the University of Washington (Lim et al., 2018), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP, 2019), the World Bank … (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank, 2018), and the World Economic Forum (World Economic Forum …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012253374
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Does education matter for economic growth?
Delgado, Michael S.; Henderson, Daniel J.; Parmeter, … - 2012
Empirical growth regressions typically include mean years of schooling as a proxy for human capital. However, empirical research often finds that the sign and significance of schooling depends on the sample of observations or the specification of the model. We use a nonparametric local-linear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009681433
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Skill formation and the trouble with child non-cognitive skill measures
Del Bono, Emilia; Kinsler, Josh; Pavan, Ronni - 2020
Research on child skill formation and related policies typically rely on parent- reported measures of child non-cognitive skills. In this paper, we show that parental assessments of child non-cognitive skills are directly affected by the skills of the parents. We develop a dynamic model of child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293676
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An innovation index based on knowledge capital investment : definition and results for the UK market sector
Clayton, Tony; Borgo, Mariela Dal; Haskel, Jonathan - 2009
We (a) propose an implementable innovation index, (b) relate it to existing innovation definitions and (c) show whole-economy and industry-specific results for the UK market sector, 2000-2005. Our innovation measure starts by observing that we could get more GDP without innovation by simply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811075
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Measuring knowledge
Heckman, James J.; Zhou, Jin - 2022
Empirical studies in the economics of education, the measurement of skill gaps across demographic groups, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187523
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Regional measures of human capital in the European Union
Dreger, Christian (contributor); Erber, Georg (contributor);  … - 2009
The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793935
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The intimate link between income levels and life expectancy : global evidence from 213 years
Jetter, Michael; Laudage, Sabine; Stadelmann, David - 2016
Contrary to previous findings, we find a systematic and economically sizeable relationship between income levels and life expectancy in a panel dataset of 197 countries over 213 years. By itself, GDP/capita explains more than 64 percent of the variation in life expectancy. The Preston curve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496984
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Nonlinearity between the shadow economy and level of development
Wu, Dong Frank; Schneider, Friedrich - 2019
This paper is the first attempt to directly explore the long-run nonlinearity of the shadow economy. Using a dataset of 158 countries over the period from 1996 to 2015, our results reveal a robust U-shaped relationship between the shadow economy size and GDP per capita. Our results imply that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022432
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Education, income and happiness : panel evidence for the UK
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A. - 2017
Using panel data from the BHPS and its Understanding Society extension, we study life satisfaction (LS) and income over nearly two decades, for samples split by education, and age - to our knowledge for the first time. The highly educated went from lowest to highest LS, though their average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011770417
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A pair-wise approach to testing for output and growth convergence
Pesaran, M. Hashem (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
to output series in the Penn World Tables over 1950-2000, as well as to Maddion's historical series over 1870 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002422931