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inequality concerns over children's final outcomes. Because parents perceive investment to be 12 percent more productive for the … developing world. I study the role played by parents' educational investment to explain this inequality and its determinants. To … develop new theory-driven survey measures based on hypothetical scenarios that allow me to separately identify parents …
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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 and health and child investments. We allow investments to be …
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The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...
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In this paper we analyze investments in human capital assets in a way which is standard for financial assets, but not (yet) for human capital assets. We study mean-variance plots of human capital assets. We compare the properties of human capital returns using a performance measure and by using...
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elderly parents live with their children, and if so, with which child) in Japan using micro data from a household survey. We …In this paper, we analyze the determinants of the living arrangements of elderly parents and their children (whether … find that the proportion of elderly parents living with their eldest sons is much higher than that of elderly parents …
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Chinese exports of electronics are carried under FDI whereas in Korea and Japan they are indigenously-driven. In 1960s, Korea … speed and scope of technology diffusion. Korea and Japan adopted the techno-nationalist policies for attaining autonomous … domestic innovated industries. By restricting FDI, Korea and Japan were able to maintain their management independent of Multi …
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