Similar Search Results

Human capital persistence and development

Rocha, Rudi; Ferraz, Claudio; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2015

This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation induced by a state-sponsored settlement policy that attracted a pool of immigrants with higher levels of schooling to particular regions of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283193

Losing our minds? : new research directions on skilled migration and development

Clemens, Michael A. - 2015

This paper critiques the last decade of research on the effects of high-skill emigration from developing countries, and proposes six new directions for fruitful research. The study singles out a core assumption underlying much of the recent literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307889

Religion in economic history: a survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms -Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239065

Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016

This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581726

Intergenerational education mobility and the level of development : evidence from Turkey

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Yazici, Hakki - 2017

characterization of education mobility in Turkey at the national level, including a three-generation mobility analysis. We find that … the education mobility is significantly lower in Turkey compared to developed economies. Second, by exploiting large … regional variation in the level of economic development across Turkey, we find that intergenerational education persistence is …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763903

Health disparities across education : the role of differential reporting error

Cawley, John H.; Choi, Anna - 2015

. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288528

Educational inequality and the returns to skills

Lundberg, Shelly - 2013

Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010125884

The Scandinavian fantasy : the sources of intergenerational mobility in Denmark and the U.S.

Landersø, Rasmus; Heckman, James J. - 2016

because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493939

Numeracy and unemployment duration

Dohmen, Thomas; Van Landeghem, Bert G. M. - 2019

Governments are showing an increasing interest in quantitative models that give insights into the determinants of unemployment duration. Yet, these models oftentimes do not explicitly take into account that unemployment prospects are influenced by personality characteristics that are not being...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060752

The spillover effects of pollution : how exposure to lead affects everyone in the classroom

Gazze, Ludovica; Persico, Claudia; Spirovska, Sandra - 2020

using new data on children's blood lead levels (BLLs) matched to all education data in North Carolina. We compare siblings …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012201425

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last