Description This half semester class presents an introduction to macroeconomic modeling, focusing on the theory of economic growth …

The first essay examines the allocation of education spending. Human capital investment in early childhood can lead to …, government education spending is allocated disproportionately toward late childhood and young adulthood. The consequences of a … education. Taking as given the higher returns to early investment, the modelshows the current allocation may nonetheless be …

transfer is given directly to the individual proportional to his or her opportunity cost stemming from education investment … that there are significant gaps in returns to education between race and migration status in Illinois; and there exists … in their education works relatively better. Furthermore, under this policy scheme, the native’s human capital stock also …

increase the levelof competitiveness. Finally we analyze Serbian agricultural education system and give some instructions for …

In this paper we focus on education as a private decision to invest in ‘human capital’ and the estimation of the rate … regression methods where the estimated return is obtained as the coefficient ona years of education variable in a log wage … effect on the earnings of an individual from participation in education. Moreover, the size of the effect seems large …

enterprises shed redundant workers. This paper focuses on the role of education in determining labor market outcomes in China … of 1999 and spring of 2000, demonstrates that education is a key determinant of labor market outcomes. Educational … attainment is an important and significant factor in the lay-off decision-the more education a worker has the better his/ her …