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Do resource-extraction booms crowd out postsecondary education? We explore this question by examining the higher … education-related decisions of Chilean high school graduates during the 2000s commodities boom. We find mineral extraction … increases a person's likelihood of enrolling in postsecondary technical education while reducing the likelihood of completing a …
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Between 1966 and 1976, China experienced a Cultural Revolution (CR). During this period, the education of around 17 …-scale schooling interruption affected their children's education. We find a strong effect: more interrupted education for parents …, less completed education for their children. On average the CR cohort had 2.9 years interrupted education. If they failed …
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development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …
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development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …
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development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …
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's education and age. We find that skilled human capital has a significant positive effect on firms' innovation, while the … role in firm innovation in metropolitan cities, while it is the General Manager's education that has a positive and …Understanding the factors that may produce a sustained rate of innovation is important for promoting economic …
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expenditure on education, the analysis of which made it possible to determine the level of education funding in each country; the … expenditure on education in GDP, depending on the level of edu- cation, which made it possible to determine the priority and … sufficiency of education system funding; the cost allocation indicator by funding organizations; and the human development index …
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This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in modern growth theory - the engineer. It collects cross-country and state level data on the labor share of engineers for the Americas, and county level data on engineering and patenting for the US during...
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to controls for parental education. Our results suggest that genetic endowments of a cohort born a half century ago …
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between technically trained founders and employees who have business skills. This suggests that the innovation potential of …
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