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Early-life medical care and human capital accumulation : medical care and public health interventions in early childhood may improve human capital accumulation as well as child hea...
Daysal, N. Meltem - 2015
Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433879
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The long run impact of a macroeconomic crisis on schooling outcomes
Sharma, Anisha - In: The journal of development studies 58 (2022) 1, pp. 115-144
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012821804
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The creativity premium
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2021
Success in life increasingly depends on key skills that allow people to thrive in education, the labor market, and their interactions with others. In this paper, we emphasize creativity as a key skill that is essential to open-ended problem solving and resistant to automation. We use rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549190
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Early-life medical care and human capital accumulatio : medical care and public health interventions in early childhood may improve human capital accumulation as well as child heal...
Daysal, N. Meltem; Hirani, Jonas Cuzulan - 2021
Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254359
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The creativity premium : exploring the link between childhood creativity and life outcomes
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2023 - This version: April 5, 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014383612
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Father's education and children's human capital : evidence from the World War II GI Bill
Page, Marianne E. (contributor) - 2006
Children who grow up in more highly educated families have better labor market outcomes as adults than those who grow … children. This paper attempts to improve our understanding of the causal processes that contribute to intergenerational … schooling levels have an affect on children's outcomes that is independent of their innate ability and suggests that public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003728006
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Timing of familycome, borrowing constraints and child achievement
Knoth Humlum, Maria (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003756687
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New evidence on the causal link between the quantity and quality of children
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lavy, Victor; Schlosser, Analia - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003330129
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New evidence on the causal link between the quantity and quality of children
Angrist, Joshua D. (contributor); Lavy, Victor (contributor) - 2006
A longstanding question in the economics of the family is the relationship between sibship size and subsequent human capital formation and economic welfare. If there is a causal "quantity-quality tradeoff," then policies that discourage large families should lead to increased human capital,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003309272
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The duration of paid parental leave and cildren's scholastic performance
Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009
We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a … reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate … the effects of prolonged parental leave on children’s test scores and grades at age 16. We show that, on average, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003848868