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Dinner Table Human Capital and Entrepreneurship

Hvide, Hans K. - 2018

We document three new facts about entrepreneurship. First, a majority of male entrepreneurs start a firm in the same or …

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Human Capital and Social Capital : The Rise of Secondary Schooling in America, 1910 to 1940

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1998

The United States led all other nations in the development of universal and publicly-funded secondary school education and much of the growth occurred from 1910 to 1940. The focus here is on the reasons for the high school movement' in American generally and why it occurred so early and swiftly...

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Civic Capital as the Missing Link

Guiso, Luigi - 2010

This chapter reviews the recent debate about the role of social capital in economics. We argue that all the difficulties this concept has encountered in economics are due to a vague and excessively broad definition. For this reason, we restrict social capital to the set of values and beliefs...

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Connective Capital as Social Capital : The Value of Problem-Solving Networks for Team Players in Firms

Ichniowski, Casey - 2009

Traditional human capital theory emphasizes a worker's investment in knowledge. However, when a worker is faced with day-to-day problems on the job, the solutions to the problems often require more knowledge from a team of experts within the firm. When a worker taps into the knowledge of...

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Can Patience Account for Subnational Differences in Student Achievement? Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kinne, Lavinia; Sancassani, Pietro; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. We show that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data -...

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International Student Mobility : Growth and Dispersion

Kaushal, Neeraj - 2019

predictions of the human capital model. The growing dispersion of international students to emerging economies and continuing …

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A Cross-Cohort Analysis of Human Capital Specialization and the College Gender Wage Gap

Sloane, Carolyn - 2019

In this paper, we exploit new data to assess gender differences in pre-labor market specialization among the college educated and highlight how those differences have evolved over time. We highlight new results pertaining to gender differences in the mapping between undergraduate major and...

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The Nature of Credit Constraints and Human Capital

Lochner, Lance J. - 2008

This paper studies the nature and impact of credit constraints in the market for human capital. We derive endogenous constraints from the design of government student loan programs and from the limited repayment incentives in private lending markets. These constraints imply cross-sectional...

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Preference for the Workplace, Human Capital, and Gender

Wiswall, Matthew - 2016

quantify how much these preferences influence pre-labor market human capital investments. Undergraduate students are presented …In the second part of the paper, we relate these job attribute preferences to major choice. Using data on students …' perceptions about the demand side of the labor market--beliefs about expected attributes of jobs students anticipate being offered …

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Aftermarket Frictions and the Cost of Off-Platform Options in Centralized Assignment Mechanisms

Kapor, Adam; Karnani, Mohit; Neilson, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

programs' joining the platform led students to start college sooner and raised the share of students who graduated on time. We … students' ranked-ordered applications, on- and off-platform enrollment, and on-time graduation outcomes. When more programs … graduation rates. High-SES students have greater access to off-platform options, and gains from platform expansion are larger for …

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