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The psychological effects of poverty on investments in children's human capital

Lichand, Guilherme; Bettinger, Eric; Cunha, Nina Menezes; … - 2021 - Revised version

Do poor parents respond inefficiently to future returns on investments, even when they would have the financial means to invest optimally? Combining multiple experiments, we document that when parents of high-school students in Brazil are offered the opportunity to invest in an educational...

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Access to Schools & Intergenerational Human Capital : Evidence from India

Sunder, Naveen - 2018

This paper examines the impact of a large scale school construction program in India, the District Primary Education … information. The results show that DPEP increased school access, enrollment, literacy and completed education for both male and …'s increased bargaining power, higher investments in children's education and better health/health related behaviors …

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Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India

Attanasio, Orazio - 2017

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, where over 70 million children aged 0-5 are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production functions include parental background, prior child cognition and health, and child investments....

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Demographic Change, Human Capital, and Economic Growth in Korea

Han, Jong-Suk - 2019

, education, and wage rate and analyze its role in economic growth for the Korean economy. Over the past three decades, human …

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Four Worlds of Productivity Growth : A Comparative Analysis of Human Capital Investment Policy and Productivity Growth Outcomes

Sakamoto, Takayuki - 2016

Labor productivity is an important determinant of the wealth of national economies and standards of living, as its growth explains half of per capita GDP growth. We show that there are four worlds of productivity growth among industrialized countries, by decomposing labor productivity growth...

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Medium of Instruction Policies and Human Capital Formation : Theory and Evidence from Africa

Ramachandran, Rajesh - 2012

The choice of language used to impart education can have important effects on the process of human capital formation …. We develop a dynamic model to understand the implications of the choice of language used in education. The main …

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Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital

Brown, Christina L.; Kaur, Supreet; Kingdon, Geeta; … - 2022

Schooling may build human capital not only by teaching academic skills, but by expanding the capacity for cognition itself. We focus specifically on cognitive endurance: the ability to sustain effortful mental activity over a continuous stretch of time. As motivation, we document that globally...

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Syrian Refugees and Human Capital Accumulation of Native Children in Turkey

Cakir, Selcen; Erbay, Elif; Kïrdar, Murat G. - 2022

education or training (NEET) increases among girls, particularly for those with less-educated parents, but not among boys. In …

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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 Development and Parental Investment in India

Attanasio, Orazio; Meghir, Costas; Nix, Emily - 2015

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...

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