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Market access, the skill premium and human capital in Spain (1860-1930)
González-Val, Rafael; Insa-Sánchez, Pau; … - 2022
economy, in this case Spain between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Specifically, we examine whether … trajectories of regional economic growth in Spain. To do this, we empirically test the relationship between education variables and …
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Making the Grade : The Sensitivity of Education Program Effectiveness to Input Choices and Outcome Measures
Kerwin, Jason - 2020
measures, using a randomized evaluation of a mother-tongue literacy program. The program raises reading scores by 0.64SDs and …
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New Evidence on the Human Capital Dynamics Within China - Is There a Human Capital Trap?
Glawe, Linda; Wagner, Helmut - 2021
It is by now well-established fact that human capital accumulation is decisive for explaining income differences across and within countries. However, while there is already a significant body of literature focusing on the analysis of income convergence, research on the dynamics of the...
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Chapter 2. The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries : Evidence From 196 Randomized Field Experiments
Fryer, R.G. - 2017
Randomized field experiments designed to better understand the production of human capital have increased exponentially over the past several decades. This chapter summarizes what we have learned about various partial derivatives of the human capital production function, what important partial...
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Human capital and earnings in eighteenth-century Castile
Álvarez, Begoña; Ramos, Fernando - In: Explorations in economic history : EEH 67 (2018), pp. 105-133
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Do literacy and numeracy pay off? On the relationship between basic skills and earnings
Antoni, Manfred; Heineck, Guido - 2012
between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323787
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Do literacy and numeracy pay off? On the relationship between basic skills and earnings
Antoni, Manfred; Heineck, Guido - 2012
between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289876
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Do literacy and numeracy pay off? : on the relationship between basic skills and earnings
Antoni, Manfred; Heineck, Guido - 2012
between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey … and only little heterogeneity when differentiating by sub-groups. -- Literacy ; numeracy ; earnings ; administrative data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009658861
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Do literacy and numeracy pay off? : on the relationship between basic skills and earnings
Antoniy, Manfred; Heineckz, Guido - 2012
' literacy, numeracy and earnings. We use data from the ALWA-ADIAB database, which is a test augmented survey linked to … positively related to both types of skills. This relationship is more pronounced for numeracy than for literacy. Heterogenous … results are found when running separate regressions for sub-groups, for instance by sex. -- Literacy ; numeracy ; earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009670708
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Do literacy and numeracy pay off? : on the relationship between basic skills and earnings
Antoni, Manfred; Heineck, Guido - 2012
between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey … and only little heterogeneity when differentiating by sub-groups. -- Literacy ; numeracy ; earnings ; administrative data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009624364