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Youth Labor Force Participation, Education, and Human Capital in Asia, by Gender, 1990-2019
Fraumeni, Barbara M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment … paper with an emphasis on differences by gender and differences across regions. Some comparisons between China and India and … gender in any analysis …
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New Schools and New Classmates : The Disruption and Peer Group Effects of School Reassignment
Hill, Darryl V.; Hughes, Rodney P.; Lenard, Matthew A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Policy makers periodically consider using student assignment policies to improve educational outcomes by altering the socio-economic and academic skill composition of schools. We exploit the quasi-random reassignment of students across schools in the Wake County Public School System to estimate...
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Intergenerational Human Capital Impacts and Complementarities in Kenya
Duhon, Madeline; Fernald, Lia C. H.; Hicks, Joan Hamory; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This study exploits experimental variation in parent human capital (early-life school-based deworming) and a shock to schooling (extended Covid closures) to estimate how these factors interact in the production of child human capital within a sample of 3,500 Kenyan 3-8 year olds. Parents with...
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The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity
Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0 …
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Measuring Human Capital
Abraham, Katharine G.; Mallatt, Justine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
formal education. We review the existing literature on the measurement of human capital. Broadly speaking, economists have …
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Four Facts about Human Capital
Deming, David J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
technology for producing these skills is not well-understood. We know that investment in education works and that skills matter …
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Labor Market Effects of Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs : Lessons from Colombia
Ferreira, María M.; Galindo, Camila; Urzua, Sergio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper estimates the heterogeneous labor market effects of enrolling in higher education short-cycle (SC) programs … (students who would not have enrolled in higher education otherwise) and the diversion margin (students who would have enrolled … higher education institutions (HEIs) facing Colombian high school graduates in an empirical multinomial choice model with …
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On the Role of Learning, Human Capital, and Performance Incentives for Wages
Camargo, Braz; Lange, Fabian; Pastorino, Elena - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Performance pay in general amounts to only a small fraction of total pay. In this paper, we show that performance pay is nevertheless important for the level and dynamics of wages over the life cycle because of the incentives it indirectly provides for human capital acquisition and because of...
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What Do Changes in State Test Scores Imply for Later Life Outcomes?
Doty, Elena; Kane, Thomas J.; Patterson, Tyler; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In the three decades before the pandemic, mean achievement of U.S. 8th graders in math rose by more than half a standard deviation on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Between 2019 and 2022, U.S. students had forfeited 40 percent of that rise. To anticipate the consequences...
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Divorce and Property Division Laws Shape Human Capital Investment
Blair, Peter Q.; Neilson, Elijah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In theory, unilateral divorce laws alter the private incentive to invest in human capital by permitting either spouse to initiate the division of the marital assets. Using several causal research designs we show that both men and women are less likely to attain a bachelor's degree in states with...
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