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Locus of control and human capital investment decisions : the role of effort, parental preferences and financial constraints
Szabó-Morvai, Ágnes; Kiss, Hubert János - 2020
We study the relationship between locus of control (LoC) and human capital investment decisions in the adolescence, using PDS lasso to exploit high-dimensional data. While LoC is not significantly associated with graduation from high school once we use exogenous controls, it correlates strongly...
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Thailand's education system and skills imbalances : assessment and policy recommendations
Vandeweyer, Marieke; Espinoza, Ricardo; Reznikova, Laura; … - 2020
In light of population ageing, globalisation, automation, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Thailand’s labour market is being significantly reshaped, and so are the skills required for higher employability. This paper analyses the capacity of Thailand’s education and training system...
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Non-college occupations, workplace routinization, and the gender gap in college enrollment
Chuan, Amanda; Zhang, Weilong - 2023
This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women overtook men in college-going. Using instrumental variation from routinization, we show that the decline of routine-intensive occupations displaced the non-college occupations of...
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Education expansion, college choice and labour market success
Braccioli, Federica; Ghinetti, Paolo; Moriconi, Simone; … - 2022
and the counterfactual outcomes associated with the choice of a STEM or non-STEM college. Instrumental variation is … induced by the proximity to universities offering STEM and/or non-STEM degrees. The empirical analysis uses confidential … faculties. We find that about 2.4% of individuals in our sample would choose a STEM college if there was one in their province …
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Human capital potential of India's future workforce
Mehdi, Ali; Chaudhry, Divya - 2015
. However, such concern has been largely missing as far as the future workforce is concerned. This paper discusses India … preprimary education. In conclusion, India will have to focus, inter alia, on early health and preschooling (soft skill …
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Education and innovation : the long shadow of the cultural revolution
Huang, Zhangkai; Phillips, Gordon M.; Yang, Jialun; … - 2020 - This version: May 9, 2020
The Cultural Revolution deprived Chinese students of the opportunity to receive higher education for 10 years when colleges and universities were closed from 1966-1976. We examine the human capital cost of this loss of education on subsequent innovation by firms, and ask if it impacted firms...
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Excellence for all? : university honors programs and human capital formation
Pugatch, Todd; Thompson, Paul N. - 2022 - Last updated: June 7, 2022
performance in natural science courses. Results suggest that selective Honors programs can accelerate skill acquisition for high …
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Excellence for all? : university honors programs and human capital formation
Pugatch, Todd; Thompson, Paul N. - 2022
first-generation students decrease in response to Honors admission, driven by low performance in natural science courses …
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Digging deep : resource exploitation and higher education
Balza, Lenin H.; Rios Rueda, Camilo de los; Rivera, … - 2022
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...
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Human capital and employment risks diversification
St.-Amour, Pascal - 2015 - Current version: June 8, 2015
Both educational expenditures and attainment have increased sharply over the last decades, despite rising prices of education, and stagnating income returns to human capital. This paper emphasizes conditional employment risks diversification as additional motivation for education demand. Job...
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