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Post Schooling Human Capital Investments and the Life Cycle Variance of Earnings
Magnac, Thierry - 2013
We propose an original model of human capital investments after leaving school in which individuals differ in their initial human capital obtained at school, their rate of return, their costs of human capital investments and their terminal values of human capital at a fixed date in the future....
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Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements : A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt
Binzel, Christine - 2013
This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085059
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Educational Inequality and the Returns to Skills
Lundberg, Shelly J. - 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...
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Genetic Ability, Wealth, and Financial Decision-Making
Barth, Daniel - 2017
Recent advances in behavioral genetics have enabled the discovery of genetic scores linked to a variety of economic outcomes, including education. We build on this progress to demonstrate that the same genetic variants that predict educational attainment independently predict household wealth in...
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Learning About Oneself : The Effects of Performance Feedback on School Choice
Bobba, Matteo - 2016
We design and implement a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high school. The intervention reduces the gap between expected and actual performance, as well as shrinks...
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Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital : Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Colombia
Attanasio, Orazio - 2015
We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children. We estimate production functions for cognitive and socio-emotional skills as a function of...
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Symposium on Child Development and Parental Investment : Introduction
Francesconi, Marco - 2016
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Month-of-Birth Effects on Skills and Skill Formation
Yamaguchi, Shintaro; Ito, Hirotake; Nakamuro, Makiko - 2023
We estimate month-of-birth effects on cognitive and noncognitive skills, as well as factors relevant to skill formation. Our estimates indicate that younger students in a given grade cohort have lower cognitive and noncognitive skills. To shed light on the underlying mechanisms, we also examine...
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College Majors and the Knowledge Content of Jobs
Freeman, James A. - 2008
knowledge content of jobs. The study combines individual wage and employment data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) with … ratings on 27 knowledge content areas from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), thus providing measures of the … economy-wide knowledge content of jobs. Fields of study and the corresponding BA degree data from the Digest of Education …
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Mediating effect of creativity between breadth of knowledge and innovation
Del-Corte-Lora, Víctor; Molina-Morales, F. Xavier; … - In: Technology analysis & strategic management 28 (2016) 7, pp. 768-782
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