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Human capital and social mobility in low- and middle-income countries
Behrman, Jere R. - 2019
children’s human capital in the form of cognitive skills, socioemotional skills and health, which pertain directly to some …
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Parental investments and children's human capital in low-to-middle-income countries
Behrman, Jere R. - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2022
's human capital in the form of cognitive skills, socioemotional skills and physical and mental health; then reviews estimates …
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Marriage markets, labor markets and unobserved human capital : an empirical exploration for South-Central India
Behrman, Jere R. - 1991
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What determines adult cognitive skills? : Impacts of pre-schooling, schooling and post-schooling experiences in Guatemala
Behrman, Jere R.; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John A.; … - 2006
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What determines adult cognitive skills? : influences of pre-school, school, and post-school experiences in Guatemala
Behrman, Jere R.; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John A.; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 23 (2014), pp. 1-32
Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on longitudinal data to estimate production functions for adult verbal and nonverbal cognitive skills, we find that: (1) School attainment has a significant and substantial effect...
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Marriage markets, labor markets, and unobserverd human capital : an empirical exploration for south-central India
Behrman, Jere R. - In: Economic development and cultural change 43 (1995) 3, pp. 585-601
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Chapter 73. Investment in EducationInputs and Incentives
Behrman, Jere R. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 5, (pp. 4883-4975). 2010
From the point of view of economic development, education is the acquisition of knowledge and skills through … experiences from conception onwards over the life cycle that increase productivity broadly defined. Education can occur through …. The proximate determinants of education are experiences or inputs into knowledge and skills production functions. Within a …
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Brains versus brawn : labor market returns to intellectual and health human capital in a poor developing country
Behrman, Jere R.; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John A.; … - 2009
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Health and growth
Spence, Andrew Michael (ed.); Lewis, Maureen A. (ed.);  … - 2009
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The contribution of human capital to economic development : some selected issues
Behrman, Jere R. - 1993
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