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Parental Response to Early Human Capital Shocks : Evidence from the Chernobyl Accident
Halla, Martin - 2014
Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents'...
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Research on Human Factors in New Nuclear Plant Technology
Nuclear Energy Agency - 2009
It is a dynamic time for the nuclear power sector. Existing reactor control rooms are undergoing various forms of modernisation. New reactors are being built in many countries and advanced reactors are being designed through international co-operation to support power generation for decades to...
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Quantile estimation for social returns to education in Turkey : 2006 - 2009
Bakis, Ozan; Davutyan, Nurhan; Levent, Haluk; Polat, Sezgin - In: Middle East development journal : a publication of the … 5 (2013) 3, pp. 1-23
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Skills, education and productivity in the KIBS sector : firm level evidence on the presence of externalities
Klaesson, Johan; Wixe, Sofia - 2011
levels? This paper aims to examine these issues with a particular focus on the importance of externalities. Externalities are … defined as region-specific economic effects influencing firm efficiency. These externalities can be broadly divided in the … following categories: i) urbanization economies which relate to diversity and density (Jacobs externalities), ii) localization …
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Human capital externalities and growth
Arteaga Cabrales, Carolina - In: Ensayos sobre política económica 29 (2011), pp. 12-47
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Optimal higher education enrollment and productivity externalities in a two-sector model
Meier, Volker; Schiopu, Ioana - 2013
We investigate externalities in higher education enrollment over the course of development in a two-sector model. Each … acquiring human capital. Both sectors exhibit productivity externalities in the size of the skill-specific labor and in the …
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Bequests or education
Dávila, Julio - 2020
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Police shootings, civic unrest and student achievement : evidence from Ferguson
Gershenson, Seth; Hayes, Michael S. - In: Journal of economic geography 18 (2018) 3, pp. 663-685
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Chapter 51. Human Capital Externalities in Cities
Moretti, Enrico - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 4, …, (pp. 2243-2291). 2004
externalities that accrue to local geographic areas. The focus of the chapter is on the empirical issues that arise in identifying … these externalities and on the existing empirical evidence on their magnitude. …
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Chapter 11 Military expenditure and developing countries
Deger, Saadet; Sen, Somnath - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 1, (pp. 275-307). 1995
Military expenditure in developing countries raises complex questions regarding growth, development, security and governance. This chapter provides an analytical survey of the effects and causes of defense spending in developing economies. Using stylized facts, theoretical models and empirical...
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