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Maternal Education, Parental Investment and Non-Cognitive Skills in Rural China
Leight, Jessica - 2016
The importance of non-cognitive skills in determining long-term human capital and labor market outcomes is widely acknowledged, but relatively little is known about how educational investments by parents may respond to non-cognitive skills early in life. This paper evaluates the parental...
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Family Networks and School Enrolment : Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment
Angelucci, Manuela - 2009
extended family. Using household panel data from the Progresa program in rural Mexico, we exploit information on the paternal …
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Policies To Promote Growth and Economic Efficiency in Mexico
Arias, Javier - 2010
stress in Mexico and this retards the growth of skills of its workforce. (2) The informal sector is large, mostly due to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462103
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Is "Learning-by-Exporting" Important? Micro-Dynamic Evidence from Colombia, Mexico and Morocco
Clerides, Sofronis - 1996
costs are not affected by previous export market participation. So the well-known efficiency gap between exporters and non …
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Exporting and Plant-Level Efficiency Gains : It's in the Measure
Marin, Alvaro Garcia - 2013
to identify export-related efficiency gains within plants. Previous research typically derived revenue productivity (TFPR … plants, we compute plant-product level marginal cost as an efficiency measure that is not affected by output prices. For … export entrant products, we find efficiency gains of 15-25%. Because markups remain relatively stable after export entry …
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School inputs, household substitution, and test scores
Das, Jishnu (contributor) - 2011
"Empirical studies of the relationship between school inputs and test scores typically do not account for the fact that households will respond to changes in school inputs. We present a dynamic household optimization model relating test scores to school and household inputs, and test its...
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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?
Beaudry, Paul - 2000
Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while the education composition of employment has evolved in a surprisingly parallel fashion. In this paper, we propose and test an explanation to these conflicting patterns. The...
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Dropout and Enrollment Trends in the Post-War Period : What Went Wrong in the 1970s?
Card, David - 2000
Over most of the 20th century successive generations of U.S. children had higher enrollment rates and rising levels of completed education. This trend reversed with the baby boom cohorts who attended school in the 1970s, and only resumed in the mid-1980s. Even today, the college entry rate of...
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How Hungry is the Selfish Gene?
Case, Anne - 1999
We examine resource allocation in step-households, in the United States and South Africa, to test whether child investments vary according to economic and genetic bonds between parent and child. We used 18 years of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and compare food expenditure by...
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Policies to Foster Human Capital
Heckman, James J. - 1999
This paper considers the sources of skill formation in a modern economy and emphasizes the importance of both cognitive and noncognitive skills in producing economic and social success and the importance of both formal academic institutions and families and firms as sources of learning. Skill...
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