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Measuring Human Capital
Angrist, Noam - 2019
Students around the world are going to school but are not learning – an emerging gap in human capital formation. To …
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Economic Growth, Comparative Advantage, and Gender Differences in Schooling Outcomes : Evidence from the Birthweight Differences of Chinese Twins
Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Zhang, Junsen - 2013
This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A unique feature of the study is to use micro evidence on the relationship between birthweight - an early measure of nutritional advantage - and schooling outcomes to make...
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Loss-of-Learning and the Post-COVID Recovery in Low-Income Countries
Buffie, Edward F.; Adam, Christopher; Zanna, Luis-Felipe; … - 2022
We analyze the medium-term macroeconomic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lock-down measures on low-income countries. We focus on the impact over the medium-run of the degradation of health and human capital caused by the pandemic and its aftermath, exploring the trade-offs between...
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Potential economic impact of COVID-19-related school closures
Cohen, Spencer; Chakravarthy, Sumathi; Bharathi, Sindhu; … - 2022
Severe disruptions in school education during the coronavirus disease (COVID–19) pandemic has impacted children through … their formative years which will affect their employment opportunities and earning potential for many years after school … Analysis Project, a computable general equilibrium model, with empirical study focusing on the impact of school closures on …
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The economic impacts of a pandemic : what happened after SARS in 2003?
Nguyen Doan; Nguyen Phuc Canh; Noy, Ilan; Sawada, Yasuyuki - 2020
This study quantifies the economic impacts of SARS on the four affected Asian economies and the two most affected Chinese regions using synthetic control methods with macroeconomic and remote-sensing nightlight data. For the four affected economies (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore), we...
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global GDP growth
Gagnon, Joseph E.; Kamin, Steven; Kearns, John - 2022
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The factors of post-covid recovery in the growth of Ukrainian economy in 2021-2022
Yatsenko, Hanna - In: Economy and forecasting : scientific journal (2021) 2, pp. 45-59
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Study on impacts of COVID-19 pandemic recession based on Monte Carlo simulation
Shang, Di; Yu, Chang; Diao, Gang - In: Prague economic papers : a bimonthly journal of … 30 (2021) 6, pp. 724-747
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Pandemics and economic growth : evidence from the 1968 H3N2 influenza
Jinjarak, Yothin; Noy, Ilan; Ta, Quy - In: Economics of disasters and climate change 6 (2022) 1, pp. 73-93
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The impact of COVID-19 and its policy responses on local economy and health conditions
Gungoraydinoglu, Ali; Öztekin, Ilke; Öztekin, Özde - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 6, pp. 1-27
US states have implemented lockdown measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. We assess the impact of state policy responses on local economic and health conditions, with the goal to shed light on marginal health benefits and economic costs associated with social distancing. We find that...
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