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Trade, Education, Governance and Distance: Impact on Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Asia and LAC

Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2017

This paper examines the impact of North-South trade, education, governance and North-South distance, on technology … Great Recession (1976-2007). Findings are: i) TFP rises with education, trade, governance (ETG) and imports’ R&D content … accounting for its TFP gap with East Asia; iii) the impact of the education gap equals the sum of the governance and openness …

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North-South Trade, Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth: Are Small States Different?

Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2017

issue in a dynamic context by focusing on the impact of education and North-South trade-related technology diffusion (NRD …) on TFP growth in small and large states in the South. The main findings are: i) TFP growth increases with NRD, education … and the interaction between the two; ii) the impact of NRD, education and their interaction on TFP growth in small states …

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Returns to Skills or Returns to Tasks? A Comment on Hanushek et al. (2015)

Köppl-Turyna, Monika; Christl, Michael - 2017

We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...

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Beyond the Average: Ethnic Capital Heterogeneity and Intergenerational Transmission of Education

Chakrabortya, Tanika; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, … - 2019

Estimating the effect of ethnic capital on human capital investment decisions is complicated by the endogeneity of immigrants’ location choice, unobserved local correlates and the reflection problem. We exploit the institutional setting of a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany, that...

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Returns to Investment in Education: The Case of Turkey

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Psacharopoulos, George; … - 2019

This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the 2017 Household Labor … Force Survey and alternative methodologies. The analysis uses the 1997 education reform of increasing compulsory education … by three years as an instrument. This results in a private rate of return on the order of 16 percent for higher education …

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Ethnicity differentials in academic achievements: The role of time investments

Nguyen, Ha Trong; Connelly, Luke B.; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2020

Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a decade to present new evidence that children of Asian...

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Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility: Theory and Evidence from China and India

Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad - 2020

persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's education because of credit market imperfections. Parents may …

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Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2020

This research establishes empirically that existing cross-language variations in the structure of the future tense and the presence of grammatical gender affected human capital accumulation. Exploiting variations in the dominant languages among migrants from the same countries of origin, the...

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Identity and Learning: a study on the effect of student-teacher gender matching on learning outcomes

Bhattacharya, Sukanta; Dasgupta, Aparajita; Mandal, Kumarjit - 2020

returns to education accrued to their parents; for girl students, a lower fraction of the return comes to their parental …

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Migration and University Education: An Empirical (Macro) Link

Akkoyunlu, Şule; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2022

Distinguishing between short-run and long-run outcomes we provide new insight into the relationship between education … university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …-linear long-run and short-run relationship between home country university education and Turkish migration to Germany over 1970 …

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