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Human capital, economic growth, and inequality in China
Heckman, James J.; Yi, Junjian - 2012
China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled … the past decade, China has made substantial investments in producing it. The egalitarian access to medium skilled …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282331
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Human capital development and parental investment in India
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Nix, Emily - 2015
In this paper we estimate production functions for cognition and health throughout four stages of childhood from 5-15 years of age using two cohorts of children drawn from the Young Lives Survey for India. The inputs into the production function include parental background, prior child cognition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011558635
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Economic growth, comparative advantage, and gender differences in schooling outcomes: Evidence from the birthweight differences of Chinese twins
Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Zhang, Junsen - 2012
Data from two surveys of twins in China are used to contribute to an improved understanding of the role of economic … development in affecting gender differences in the trends in, levels of, and returns to schooling observed in China and in many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282745
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Regionalism in West Africa : Do Polar Countries Reap the Benefits? : A Role for Migration
Konseiga, Adama - 2005
In the present globalization era an increasing attention is paid to the ambiguous relationship between international migration, brain drain, and economic growth, but few papers analyzed the growth impact of skilled migration. The paper filled the research gap by building the first dataset on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262227
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China's Overt Economic Rise and Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top
Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
We provide an overview of China's economic rise through time. Over the past decade, China has maintained 10% growth in … students enrolled in Chinese higher education institutions has increased dramatically; China is producing serious scholars and … students find a rising interest in receiving education in China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331384
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China's overt economic rise and latent human capital investment: Achieving milestones and competing for the top
Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N.; Zimmermann, … - 2010
We provide an overview of China's economic rise through time. Over the past decade, China has maintained 10% growth in … students enrolled in Chinese higher education institutions has increased dramatically; China is producing serious scholars and … students find a rising interest in receiving education in China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285739
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Declining fertility and economic well-being: Do education and health ride to the rescue?
Prettner, Klaus; Bloom, David E.; Strulik, Holger - 2012
It is widely argued that declining fertility slows the pace of economic growth in industrialized countries through its negative effect on labor supply. There are, however, theoretical arguments suggesting that the effect of falling fertility on effective labor supply can be offset by associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282140
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The western European marriage pattern and economic development
Foreman-Peck, James - 2009
For several centuries, women's age at first marriage in Western Europe was higher than in the east (and in the rest of the world). Over the same period Western Europe began slow but sustained economic development relative to elsewhere. A model based on the economics of the household explains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288829
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Unequal opportunities and human capital formation
Mejίa, Daniel; St-Pierre, Marc - 2005
This paper develops a tractable, heterogeneous agents general equilibrium model where individuals have different endowments of the factors that complement the schooling process. The paper explores the relationship between inequality of opportunities, inequality of outcomes, and efficiency in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275770
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Firm-level Human Capital and Innovation: Evidence from China
Sun, Xiuli; Li, Haizheng; Ghosal, Vivek - 2017
manufacturing firms from China. We use two firm-level datasets from China: one from metropolitan cities, and one from provincial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615925