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What determines adult cognitive skills? : influences of pre-school, school, and post-school experiences in Guatemala
Behrman, Jere R.; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John A.; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 23 (2014), pp. 1-32
Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on … control for endogeneity; and (4) point to limitations in using adult school attainment alone to represent human capital. …
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Productive consumption and growth in developing countries
Steger, Thomas M. - 1997
preferences but in addition on the technological possibilities to enhance human capital due to productive consumption, (d) a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615526
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A model of human capital, time discounting and economic growth
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2008
Endogenous time discounting is introduced in a two-period human-capital-driven growth model: subjective discount rate … depends upon the level of human capital. This assumption accords strongly with the micro-level evidence. In the model an … individual optimizes consumption over two periods. Low human capital societies do not grow fast since high discount rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322280
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Emigration and democracy
Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2011
. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled … once incentive effects of emigration on human capital formation are accounted for. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336024
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From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History
Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - 2003
Since the Middle Ages the Jews have been engaged primarily in urban, skilled occupations, such as crafts, trade, finance, and medicine. This distinctive occupational selection occurred between the seventh and the ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire and then it spread to other locations. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262232
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Emigration and democracy
Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2011
. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled … once incentive effects of emigration on human capital formation are accounted for. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278546
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A model of human capital, time discounting and economic growth
Bauer, Michal (contributor); Chytilová, Julie (contributor) - 2008
Endogenous time discounting is introduced in a two-period human-capital-driven growth model: subjective discount rate … depends upon the level of human capital. This assumption accords strongly with the micro-level evidence. In the model an … individual optimizes consumption over two periods. Low human capital societies do not grow fast since high discount rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755176
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Economics, area studies and human development
Ranis, Gustav - 2009
This paper suggests that area studies and economics have a better chance to be married successfully if we shift our attention from the exclusive emphasis on economic growth towards improvements in human development, especially the much broadened version of that concept. Different areas are shown...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003864751
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Emigration and democracy
Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2011
. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled … once incentive effects of emigration on human capital formation are accounted for. -- Migration ; institutions ; democracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008907761
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Human capital investment and the gender division of labor in a brawn-based economy
Pitt, Mark Martin; Rosenzweig, Mark Richard; Hassan, Nazmul - 2010
levels and returns to human capital investments. These include the higher return to and level of schooling, the small effect …We use a model of human capital investment and activity choice to explain facts describing gender differentials in the … of healthiness on wages, and the large effect of healthiness on schooling for females relative to males. The model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008658474