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Using linked records from the 1880 to 1940 full-count United States decennial censuses, we estimate the effects of parental exposure to compulsory schooling (CS) laws on the human capital outcomes of children, exploiting the staggered roll-out of state CS laws in the late nineteenth and early...
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Using linked records from the 1880 to 1940 full-count United States decennial censuses, we estimate the effects of parental exposure to compulsory schooling (CS) laws on the human capital outcomes of children, exploiting the staggered roll-out of state CS laws in the late nineteenth and early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014521056
public investments in education received by these adults during their schooling. This paper confirms existing evidence that … in primary education is associated with higher numeracy scores for those who went on to continue their education. Higher … investments in tertiary education are needed in order to fully realize the benefit of the investments in primary school. Family …
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Human capital can depreciate if skills are unused. But estimating human capital depreciation is challenging, as worker skills are difficult to measure and less productive workers are more likely to spend time in non-employment. We overcome these challenges with new administrative data on...
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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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find that treated women increase their education by 8-10 months and premarital use of the pill by sixteen percentage points …
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attenuate factor price movements in response to birth rate shocks. Specifically, we show that if education spending per child is … size of each generation. The degree of this attenuation effect will depend on the effectiveness of education spending in … own demographic uncertainty. As a final exercise, we demonstrate that if the tax rate funding education spending varies …
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attenuate factor price movements in response to birth rate shocks. Specifically, we show that if education spending per child is … size of each generation. The degree of this attenuation effect will depend on the effectiveness of education spending in … own demographic uncertainty. As a final exercise, we demonstrate that if the tax rate funding education spending varies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011803190
The multitude of tasks performed in the labor market requires skills in many dimensions. Traditionally, human capital has been proxied primarily by educational attainment. However, an expanding body of literature highlights the importance of various skill dimensions for success in the labor...
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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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