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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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Return Migration and Human Capital Flows
Amanzadeh, Naser; Kermani, Amir; McQuade, Timothy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We bring to bear a novel dataset covering the employment history of about 450 million individuals from 180 countries to study return migration and the impact of skilled international migration on human capital stocks across countries. Return migration is a common phenomenon, with 38% of skilled...
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Clans, Guilds, and Markets : Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy
de la Croix, David - 2016
In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. We argue that superior institutions for the creation and dissemination of productive knowledge...
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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria : Evidence from Failed Firms
Fersterer, Josef - 2007
Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS … selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. In order to overcome the resulting ability bias we estimate returns … to apprenticeship training for apprentices in failed firms in Austria. When a firm fails, current apprentices cannot …
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Financing Apprenticeship Training : Evidence from Germany
Harhoff, Dietmar - 1993
Much of the current discussion promoting apprenticeship programs in the U.S. proceeds as if it is simply a matter of … system of apprenticeship training. Many German firms face large net costs of apprenticeship training. Yet they continue to …
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The Structure of Wages and Investment in General Training
Acemoglu, Daron - 1998
compress the structure of wages in the general skills of their employees. The reason is that the distortion in the wage … wages and union wage setting, are crucial in shaping the wage structure thus have an important impact on training. Our …
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How Successful Public Health Interventions Fail : Regulating Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Goehring, Grant; Hanlon, W. Walker - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Public health interventions often involve a trade-off between improving health and protecting individual rights. We study this trade-off in a high-stakes setting: prostitution regulations aimed at reducing the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Victorian Britain. These...
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Like an Ink Blot on Paper : Testing the Diffusion Hypothesis of Mass Migration, Italy 1876-1920
Spitzer, Yannay; Zimran, Ariell - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Why were the poorer countries of the European periphery latecomers to the Age of Mass Migration? We test the diffusion hypothesis, which argues that mass emigration was delayed because it was primarily governed by a gradual process of spatial diffusion of migration networks. We propose a model...
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Cultural Remittances and Modern Fertility
Melki, Mickael; Rapoport, Hillel; Spolaore, Enrico; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We argue that migrants played a significant role in the diffusion of the demographic transition from France to the rest of Europe in the late 19th century. Employing novel data on French immigration from other European regions from 1850 to 1930, we find that higher immigration to France...
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Does Occupational Licensing Reduce Job Loss During Recessions?
Blair, Peter Q.; Chung, Bobby W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Licensed workers could be shielded from unemployment during recession since occupational licensing laws are asymmetric--making unlicensed workers an illegal substitute for licensed workers but not the reverse. We test our hypothesis using a difference-in-differences event study research design...
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