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two separate margins of primary/secondary and tertiary education. Interestingly, the latter type of schooling proves to be …
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production workers' level of education are found to positively determine the use of emails, website and other means of …
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This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation induced by a state-sponsored settlement policy that attracted a pool of immigrants with higher levels of schooling to particular regions of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th...
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Disruptions in family life can take many forms, but all have the potential to impact student learning. With school administrative data matched to birth records, I estimate the effect of unexpected changes in the home environment, or family shocks, on achievement. Identification comes from...
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This paper critiques the last decade of research on the effects of high-skill emigration from developing countries, and proposes six new directions for fruitful research. The study singles out a core assumption underlying much of the recent literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of...
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children. But what if children also affect their parents' human capital? Using exogenous variation in education, arising from a …-sectional relationship between children's education and their parents' longevity. Our causal estimates tell a different story; children …
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qualitative leap in the development of education, healthcare and the pension system. We need fundamental changes in these sectors …
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blocks: the level of economic development (GRP growth rate and GRP per capita), education and human capital (number of … students per capita and the average number of education years for employees), science and innovation (number of researchers and … capita). Since the performance of education and science are relatively stable for the Russian regions, characteristics of GRP …
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lives. The return to education varies greatly by institutional quality, discipline, and individual characteristics …
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Formal schooling increases earnings and provides other individual benefits. However, societal benefits of education may … exceed individual benefits. Research finds that increased average education levels in an area are correlated with higher … earnings, even for locals with relatively little education. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates …
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