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Education and Unemployment
Mincer, Jacob - 2021
A major benefit of education is the lower risk of unemployment at higher educational levels. In PSID (Panel Study of …
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Mother'S Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital : Evidence from College Openings and Longitudinal Data
Currie, Janet; Moretti, Enrico - 2021
We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital Statistics Natality files for … 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential channels through which maternal education may improve birth … education on changes in birth outcomes. Second, we have compiled a new data set on openings of two and four year colleges …
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Education and Nonmarket Outcomes
Grossman, Michael - 2021
I explore the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Examples of …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. I pay a good deal of attention to the effects of education on health … education has productive efficiency and allocative efficiency effects. I then modify these frameworks to allow for the …
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Schooling, Labor Force Quality, and Economic Growth
Hanushek, Eric A.; Kim, Dongwook - 2000
Human capital is almost always identified as a crucial ingredient for growing economies, but empirical investigations of cross-national growth have done little to clarify the dimensions of relevant human capital or any implications for policy. This paper concentrates on the importance of labor...
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Why the Apple Doesn't Fall Far : Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2022
Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …
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Die Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie: Lösungen für die gesamte Lebenszeit
Bovenberg, A. Lans - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 57 (2004) 21, pp. 17-29
In einer modernen wissensintensiven Wirtschaft ist Humankapital der Schlüssel zur Sicherung des Arbeitskräfteangebots … und des Produktivitätszuwachses. Humankapital wird nicht nur in Schulen, sondern auch in der Familie und in Betrieben …
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News Shocks
Barsky, Robert - 2009
We implement a new approach for the identification of news shocks about future technology. In a VAR featuring a measure of aggregate technology and several forward-looking variables, we identify the news shock as the shock orthogonal to technology innovations that best explains future variation...
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Life at the Top : The Benefits of Height
Deaton, Angus - 2011
explained by the positive association between height and both income and education, both of which are positively linked to …
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The Long-Run Impacts of Early Childhood Education : Evidence from a Failed Policy Experiment
DeCicca, Philip - 2011
We investigate short and long-term effects of early childhood education using variation created by a unique policy …
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Financial Literacy, Financial Education and Economic Outcomes
Hastings, Justine S. - 2012
In this article we review the literature on financial literacy, financial education, and consumer financial outcomes … addresses whether financial education improves financial literacy or personal financial outcomes. We discuss the extent to which … on the efficacy and cost of financial education. Finally, we discuss directions for future research …
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