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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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Politics 2.0 : The Multifaceted Effect of Broadband Internet on Political Participation
Campante, Filipe R. - 2013
We investigate the causal impact of broadband Internet on political participation using data from Italy. We show that this impact varies across different forms of political engagement and over time. Initially, broadband had a negative effect on turnout in national elections, driven by increased...
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Demographics in Dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin Models : Overlapping Generations Versus Infinitely Lived Consumers
Kehoe, Timothy J. - 2007
This paper contrasts the properties of dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin models with overlapping generations with those of models with infinitely lived consumers. In both environments, if capital is mobile across countries, factor price equalization occurs after the initial period. In general, however,...
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Endowments, Skill-Biased Technology, and Factor Prices : A Unified Approach to Trade
Morrow, Peter - 2017
We develop a multi-factor, multi-sector Eaton-Kortum model in order to examine the impact of trade costs, factor endowments, and technology (both Ricardian and factor-augmenting) on factor prices, trade in goods, and trade in the services of primary factors (value-added trade). This framework...
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An Elementary Theory of Comparative Advantage
Costinot, Arnaud - 2010
Comparative advantage, whether driven by technology or factor endowment, is at the core of neoclassical trade theory. Using tools from the mathematics of complementarity, this paper offers a simple, yet unifying perspective on the fundamental forces that shape comparative advantage. The main...
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Offshoring : General Equilibrium Effects on Wages, Production and Trade
Baldwin, Richard E. - 2010
A simple model of offshoring, which depicts offshoring as 'shadow migration,' permits straightforward derivation of necessary and sufficient conditions for the effects on wages, prices, production and trade. We show that offshoring requires modification of the four classic international trade...
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