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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 … the importance of childhood nutrition ("lynn effect" and work complexity in explaining increases in nonverbal cognitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500566
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Human capital, labour market outcomes, and horizontal inequality in Guatemala
Canelas, Carla; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2017
With the second largest indigenous population by percentage in Latin America, Guatemala is an important case for … political mobilization in Guatemala at the national level. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688588
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Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States
Hanushek, Eric A.; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307079
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Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States
Hanushek, Eric A.; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307361
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Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform
Hanushek, Eric A.; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420726
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Cognitive Skills, Noncognitive Skills, and School-to-Work Transitions in Rural China
Glewwe, Paul; Huang, Qiuqiong; Park, Albert - 2017
Economists have long recognized the important role of formal schooling and cognitive skills on labor market … schooling, there is no strong evidence that skills measured in childhood predict wages in the early years of labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653294
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Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform
Hanushek, Eric A.; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431207
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Active labour market policy effects for women in Europe: A survey
Bergemann, Annette; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2006
We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skilltraining programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293019
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Life expectancy, schooling, and lifetime labor supply: Theory and evidence revisited
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2013
This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the role of life expectancy for optimal schooling and … optimal schooling. The observed increase in survival rates during working ages that follows from the rectangularization of the … survival function is crucial for schooling and labor supply. The empirical results suggest that the relative benefits of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293192
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Health and Education: Understanding the Gradient
Strulik, Holger - 2011
This study presents a novel view on education and health behavior of individuals constrained by aging bodies. The aging process, i.e. the accumulation of health deficits over time, is built on recent insights from gerontology. The loss of body functionality, which eventually leads to death, can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294416