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Limited Life Expectancy, Human Capital and Health Investments: Evidence from Huntington Disease
Oster, Emily; Shoulson, Ira; Dorsey, E. Ray - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
One of the most basic predictions of human capital theory is that life expectancy should impact human capital investment. Limited exogenous variation in life expectancy makes this difficult to test, especially in the contexts most relevant to the macroeconomic applications. We estimate the...
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Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Prakash, Nishith - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in … increased girls' age-appropriate enrollment in secondary school by 30% and also reduced the gender gap in age …
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Height, Skills, and Labor Market Outcomes in Mexico
Vogl, Tom - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Taller workers are paid higher wages. A prominent explanation for this pattern is that physical growth and cognitive development share childhood inputs, inducing a correlation between adult height and two productive skills: strength and intelligence. This paper explores the relative roles of...
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Early-Life Health and Adult Circumstance in Developing Countries
Currie, Janet; Vogl, Tom - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
A growing literature documents the links between long-term outcomes and health in the fetal period, infancy, and early childhood. Much of this literature focuses on rich countries, but researchers are increasingly taking advantage of new sources of data and identification to study the long reach...
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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China
Heckman, James J.; Yi, Junjian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled … the past decade, China has made substantial investments in producing it. The egalitarian access to medium skilled …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …
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Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA
Hanushek, Eric; Woessmann, Ludger; Link, Susanne - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that autonomy may be conducive to student achievement in well-developed...
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School Resources and Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries: A Review of the Literature from 1990 to 2010
Glewwe, Paul William; Hanushek, Eric; Humpage, Sarah D.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
schooling and, more importantly, the skills that they learn while in school. This paper examines studies published between 1990 …
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Understanding the Mechanisms through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...
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The Long-term Effects of Early Lead Exposure: Evidence from a case of Environmental Negligence
Rau, Tomás; Reyes, Loreto; Urzúa, Sergio S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper estimates the effect of early lead exposure on academic achievement and adult earnings. We analyze longitudinal information from individuals attending primary and secondary schools in the city of Arica (in northern Chile). Between 1984 and 1989, Arica received more than 20,000 tons of...
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Land Reform and Sex Selection in China
Li, Hongbin; Almond, Douglas; Zhang, Shuang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
sweeping pro-market policies. How did China's excess in male births respond to rural land reform? In newly-available data from … blamed for increased sex ratios during the early 1980s. Our results point to China's watershed economic liberalization as a …
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