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The duration of paid parental leave and cildren's scholastic performance
Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009
between matÿ­ernal education and school outcomes. …
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How do crises affect schooling decisions? Evidence from changing labor market opportunities and a policy experiment
López Bóo, Florencia - 2008
the probability of attending school and decrease the probability of combining work and school, particularly for boys; the … probability of being in school for secondary school children was about 6 percent higher in 2002 than in 1998. These estimates … children in provinces fully implementing the FEL were 3 percent more likely to be in school and 1.6 percent points less likely …
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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms
Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2007
Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and...
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Inter-ethnic redistribution and human investments
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2009
This article analyzes income redistribution in the inter-ethnic context. The model shows that redistribution in favor of less prosperous ethnic minorities raises fertility among the unskilled minority recipients, lowers fertility among the contributing local skilled, slows human capital...
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Trading population for productivity
Galor, Oded; Mountford, Andrew - 2003
determinant of the distribution of world population and a prime cause of the Great Divergence in income per capita across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318876
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Is tolerance good or bad for growth?
Berggren, Niclas; Elinder, Mikael - 2010
growth. Data from the World Values Survey enable us to investigate tolerance-growth relationships for 54 countries. We …
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2008 Lawrence R. Klein lecture - Comparative economic development: Insights from unified growth theory
Galor, Oded - 2009
This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identifies the factors that have governed the pace of the transition from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284035
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Trading population for productivity: Theory and evidence
Galor, Oded; Mountford, Andrew - 2008
This research argues that the differential effect of international trade on the demand for human capital across countries has been a major determinant of the distribution of income and population across the globe. In developed countries the gains from trade have been directed towards investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284056
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Prizes for basic research - Human capital, economic might and the shadow of history
Aizenman, Joshua; Noy, Ilan - 2006
This paper studies the impact of global factors on patterns of basic research across countries and time. We rely on the records of major scientific awards, and on data dealing with global economic and historical trends. Specifically, we investigate the degree to which scale or threshold effects...
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Higher Education in India: Seizing the Opportunity
Kaul, Sanat - 2006
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