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Using microdata from the 1960-2000 decennial censuses, this paper explores how large initial differences in immigrant earnings by country of origin change with duration in the United States. One analysis reveals that country of origin adds less to the explanation of earnings, among working-age...
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profiles. Our study also explains the willingness of immigrants to accept jobs at wages that seem unacceptable to natives …
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(or negative) effects of schooling on productivity that have been recently reported (i) in the micro literature on …
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different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a … shaping educational choices and labor market and health outcomes. We improve on LATE by identifying the groups affected by …
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-post microeconomic effects of natural disasters on the accumulation of human capital, focusing on consumption, nutrition, education and … health, including mental health. Three major findings come forward from this work. First, disasters appear to bring … substantial damages to human capital, including death and destruction, and produce deleterious consequences on nutrition …
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accelerated. We find that human capital positively affects output per worker and productivity growth. In particular, in terms of …
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In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer's seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole array...
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Education, general health, and reproductive health are key indicators of human development. Investments in these …
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economic consequences of women's rights documents that more rights for women lead to more spending on health and children …
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We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...
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