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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 23 (2014) 1, pp. 1-32
Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on … control for endogeneity; and (4) point to limitations in using adult school attainment alone to represent human capital. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500566
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Human capital investment and the gender division of labor in a brawn-based economy
Pitt, Mark M.; Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Hassan, Nazmul - 2010
levels and returns to human capital investments. These include the higher return to and level of schooling, the small effect …We use a model of human capital investment and activity choice to explain facts describing gender differentials in the … of healthiness on wages, and the large effect of healthiness on schooling for females relative to males. The model …
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Avaliando o desempenho da indústria brasileira
Mendonça, Márcio Jorge; Pereira, Rodrigo Mendes; … - 2022
In this study we investigate the performance of Brazilian industry based on productivity and efficiency indicators. We associate productivity with the concept of total factor productivity (TFP) while efficiency is measured based on the stochastic frontier production model that indicates how far...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013400235
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Sectoral decomposition of convergence in labor productivity: A re-examination from a new dataset
Dieppe, Alistair; Matsuoka, Hideaki - 2022
This paper investigates how the sector-specific source or the changing sectoral composition of labor productivity has contributed to Ø-convergence, using a newly constructed eightsector database. The main findings are twofold. First, both within and sectoral reallocation have become important...
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Methods of analyzing the relationship between new business formation and regional development
Fritsch, Michael - 2012
The paper reviews the approaches that have been followed for analyzing the effect of new business formation on regional development. It begins with an outline of how start-ups may affect regional development. In dealing with different ways of empirically assessing these effects, I particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291847
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Road and maritime transport costs: A comparative analysis of Spanish exports to Poland and Turkey
Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas - 2006
In this paper, we analyze the determinants of maritime and road transport costs for Spanish exports to Poland and Turkey and investigate the different effects of these costs on international trade. First, we investigate the extent to which maritime and road transport costs depend on different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291864
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Who gives aid to whom and when? Aid accelerations, shocks and policies
Brück, Tilman; Xu, Guo - 2011
We address the pitfalls of averaging by exploiting the longitudinal variation in aid to identify sudden and sharp increases in aid flows. Focusing on specific events, we test if aid accelerations correspond to policies and shocks in the recipient country. For a large sample of 145 recipient...
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Human capital and macroeconomic growth: Austria and Germany 1960 - 1997. An update
Koman, Reinhard; Marin, Dalia - 1999
-capita income levels and growth rates is consistent with a standard Solow model, once it has been augmented to include human capital … human capital. Based on a perpetual inventory procedure we construct measures of human capital stocks. We find that the time … series evidence on Austria and Germany is not consistent with a human-capital-augmented Solow model. Factor accumulation …
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Migration and pollution
Jha, Raghbendra; Whalley, John - 2003
We explore the links between migration of labour and location specific (urban) pollution, suggesting a sense in which pollution can be welfare improving. In a conventional Harris-Todaro model of urban-rural migration, individuals migrate so as to equate the expected urban wage (given a downward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291995
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The long-term educational cost of war: Evidence from landmine contamination in Cambodia
Merrouche, Quarda - 2006
The economic impact of war may be visible in the long run and particularly its impact on human capital. I use unique … destruction of physical capital is the major factor that drives down the returns to education in Cambodia post-war. …
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