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Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India
Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Ghatak, Maitreesh; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010
one's own group or if there is a preference for \marrying up". We then estimateactual preferences for caste, education …
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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effectof Education and Personal Control on the RelativePerformance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’?What might explain any differences …? And does education affect peoples’ occupationalchoices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US … labor forceparticipants. We show that education affects peoples’ decisions to become an entrepreneurnegatively. We show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360612
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Entrepreneurship and Higher Education: An Overviewof the Iowa State University Alumni Survey
Jolly, Robert William; Li, Yu; Orazem, Peter F.; Kimle, … - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2010
human capital and innovation are important for growth entrepreneurship,then higher education should have a significant role … requested information on graduates’ employmenthistory, further education, income, entrepreneurial activity and community …
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Investing in People for the 21st Century
Huffman, Wallace E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2009
The paper draws upon the work of T.W. Schultz to show that human capital theory andlabor market adjustments have important implications for investing in people for the 21st Century.[...]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360744
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Patience Cycles
Barnett, Richard; Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Puhakka, Mikko - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2009
betterin school, and hence, get more education but scrimp on investing in their own progeny’s patience.This dynamic can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360765
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Bildung und Wirtschaftswachstum
Ursprung, Heinrich - Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut <Kreuzlingen>
. Ökonomen verstehen Bildung nämlich als Ausbildung, das heisst als Investition. Wie jede andere Investition verursacht ja auch … die Bildung Kosten... …
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Changes over time in the relationship of obesity to education accumulation
Classen, Tim - In: Eastern economic journal 43 (2017) 3, pp. 496-519
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012243911
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Social interventions, health and wellbeing : the long-term and intergenerational effects of a school construction program
Mazumder, Bhashkar; Rosales, Maria Fernanda; Triyana, … - 2019
We analyze the long-run and intergenerational effects of a large-scale school building project (INPRES) that took place in Indonesia between 1974 and 1979. Specifically, we link the geographic rollout of INPRES to longitudinal data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey covering two generations....
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A socioeconomic disaggregation of the World Bank Human Capital Index
D'Souza, Ritika; Gatti, Roberta; Kraay, Aart - 2019
This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital …
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Inclusive human growth
Riboud, Michelle - In: Global journal of emerging market economies 7 (2015) 1, pp. 28-64
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