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Estimating the production function for human capital: Results from a randomized controlled trial in Colombia
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Cattan, Sarah; Fitzsimons, Emla; … - 2020
We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265333
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Can intensive early childhood intervention programs eliminate income-based cognitive and achievement gaps?
Duncan, Greg J.; Sojourner, Aaron J. - 2012
How much of the income-based gaps in cognitive ability and academic achievement could be closed by a two-year, center-based early childhood education intervention? Data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), which randomly assigned treatment to low birth weight children from both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291393
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Leadership and influence: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment on local public good provision
D'Adda, Giovanna - 2011
This paper studies the effect of leadership on the level and evolution of pro-social behavior using an artefactual field experiment on local public good provision. Participants decide how much to contribute to an actual conservation project. They can then revise their donations after being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316874
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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 … function include parental background, prior child cognition and health and child investments. We allow investments to be … endogenous and they depend on local prices and household income, as well as on the exogenous determinants of cognition and health …
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Forecasting Aggregate Productivity using Information from Firm-Level Data
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Wolf, Zoltan - 2009
This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity to build times-series components that capture the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325710
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Technology as problem-solving procedures and technology as input-output relations: Some perspectives on the theory of production
Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco - 2005
In this work, inspired by Winter (2006), in fact of vintage 1968, we discuss the relation between three different levels of analysis of technologies, namely as (i) bodies of problem-solving knowledge, (ii) organizational procedures, and (iii) input-output relations. We begin by arguing that the...
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Introducing environmental variables in nonparametric frontier models: A probabilistic approach
Daraio, Cinzia; Simar, Léopold - 2003
This paper proposes a general formulation of a nonparametric frontier model introducingexternal environmental factors that might influence the production process butare neither inputs nor outputs under the control of the producer. A representation isproposed in terms of a probabilistic model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328662
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On human capital formation with exit options: comment and new results
Poutvaara, Panu - 2005
Katz and Rapoport (2005) conclude that with linear production technology and the possibility of unilateral migration, region-specific shocks may increase the average level of education. Previously, Poutvaara (2000) derived a corresponding result with Cobb-Douglas technology and migration which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267605
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On human capital formation with exit options : comment and new results
Poutvaara, Panu - 2006
Katz and Rapoport (2005) conclude that with linear production technology and the possibility of unilateral migration, region-specific shocks may increase the average level of education. Previously, Poutvaara (2000) derived a corresponding result with Cobb-Douglas technology and migration which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261404
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Solow and Heterogeneous Labor: A Neoclassical Explanation of Wage Inequality
Meckl, Jürgen; Zink, Stefan - 2003
The paper analyzes the effect of human-capital investments of heterogeneous individuals on the dynamics of the wage structure within a neoclassical growth model. The accumulation of physical capital changes relative factor prices and thus incentives to acquire skills, thereby altering the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262233