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This paper synthesizes what economists have learned about human capital since Becker (1962) into four stylized facts. First, human capital explains at least one-third of the variation in labor earnings within countries and at least half of the variation across countries. Second, human capital...
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Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. We show that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data -...
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We study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy … effects vary by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary …
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This chapter summarizes existing evidence on the link between education and innovation and presents open questions for … future research. After a brief review of theoretical frameworks on the link between education, innovation, and economic … growth, we explore three alternative policies to encourage innovation through education: expanding access to basic skills …
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