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Education enrollment rate vs employment rate : implications for sustainable human capital development in Nigeria
Adejumo, Opeyemi Oluwabunmi; Asongu, Simplice; Adejumo, … - 2021
, through education especially at higher levels, will allow human capital to evolve dynamically and increase long-run growth in … Nigeria. This tendency engenders multiplier effects in stimulating sustainable development given that education-driven growth … growth. Therefore, investments in education have been identified as a vital channel for building human capital and achieving …
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Are there no wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany? : a reassessment
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2021
This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this finding...
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Are there no wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany? : a reassessment
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2021
This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3) 2008, 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550294
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Is the return to education the same for everybody? : while a four-year college degree is financially beneficial for most people, it is not necessarily the best option for everyone
Webber, Douglas A. - 2014
lives. The return to education varies greatly by institutional quality, discipline, and individual characteristics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421881
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The impact of cannabis use on short-term educational outcomes
Mart, Joaquim; Perini, Lionel - 2013
heterogeneity into account when assessing the impact of substance use on education. …
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Creativity, education or what? : on the measurement of regional human capital
Bode, Eckhardt; Pérez-Villar, Lucia - 2014
creative occupations rather than education. Consistent with Florida’s notion of creativity, it suggests a microfoundation that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406921
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Family shocks and academic achievement
Hull, Marie - 2015
Disruptions in family life can take many forms, but all have the potential to impact student learning. With school administrative data matched to birth records, I estimate the effect of unexpected changes in the home environment, or family shocks, on achievement. Identification comes from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011296058
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Family disadvantage, gender and the returns to genetic human capital
Ronda, Victor; Agerbo, Esben; Bleses, Dorthe; … - 2020
This paper relies on a large-scale sample of genotyped individuals linked with detailed register data in Denmark to investigate the context-dependence of genetic influences on human capital formation. We show that the returns to genetic endowments, measured by a polygenic score for educational...
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Conscription and educational outcomes : quasi-experimental evidence from the Republic of Cyprus
Savčić, Ružica; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Xefteris, … - 2020
Peacetime military service has both positive and negative effects on human capital. While it depreciates academic abilities it also enhances non-cognitive skills. The net effect of conscription is hard to identify due to issues of self-selection, endogenous timing and omitted variables bias. We...
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Wage returns to human capital resulting from an extra year of primary school : evidence from Egypt
Asʿad, Rāǧī; Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Dayıoğlu, Meltem; … - 2023
fathers have low levels of education - indicating important human capital effects for underprivileged boys. Consistent with …
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