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Storms, early education, and human capital
Pelli, Martino; Tschopp, Jeanne - 2024
This paper explores how school-age exposure to storms impacts the education and primary activity status of young adults … the probability of accruing educational delays, a 2 percentage point decline in post-secondary education achievement, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015073801
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International Student Mobility and High-Skilled Migration: The Evidence
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Reczkowski, Isabella - 2012
Using information from the UNCTAD, we construct a new balanced panel database ofbilateral international student mobility for 150 origin countries, 23 host countries, andthe years 1970-2000. We match these data with information on bilateral stocks of internationalmigrants by educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312159
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Great expectations and hard times : the (nontrivial) impact of education on domestic terrorism
Brockhoff, Sarah; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2012
This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The … findings point at a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education (primary education) tends to promote terrorism … education (university education) reduces terrorism in a cluster of countries where conditions are more favorable. This suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535092
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International education and economic growth
Bergerhoff, Jan; Borghans, Lex; Seegers, Philipp K.; … - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-13
highly educated students for their labour force, they face the additional cost of providing the education. In much of … countries benefit from educating international students. We derive conditions under which international education has a positive … extra growth of 0.049 percentage points. The benefits from international education increase when a country tunes its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793430
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Technology, trade, and growth : the role of education
Prettner, Klaus; Strulik, Holger - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250451
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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömar; Sarid, Assaf - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523472
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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557658
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The gender gap in mathematics : evidence from a middle-income country
Bharadwaj, Prashant; De Giorgi, Giacomo; Hansen, David; … - 2015
Using a large administrative data set from Chile, we find that, on average, boys perform better than girls in mathematics. In this paper, we document several features of their relative performance. First, we note that the gender gap appears to increase with age (it doubles between fourth grade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500668
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Age-specific education inequality, education mobility and income growth
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; KC, Samir; Sauer, Petra - 2013
of education inequality measures across age groups allows us to assess the effect of inter-generational education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010432435
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International Education and Economic Growth
Bergerhoff, Jan - 2013
highly educated students for their labour force, they face the additional cost of providing the education. In much of … countries benefit from educating international students. We derive conditions under which international education has a positive … extra growth of 0.049 percentage points. The benefits from international education increase when a country tunes its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082754