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Human Capital, Schooling and Health
Schultz, T. Paul - 2008
reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling … productivity and the proxies specified for schooling and adult health are first discussed, and then the functional relationships …A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080486
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Human Capital, Schooling and Health Returns
Schultz, T. Paul - 2008
reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087237
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Human capital, schooling and health returns
Schultz, T. Paul - 2003
reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613259
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Human Capital, Schooling and Health Returns
Schultz, T. Paul - 2003
reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369257
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Human capital, schooling and health
Schultz, T. Paul - In: Economics and human biology 1 (2003) 2, pp. 207-221
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001778394
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3G internet and human capital development
Jain, Ronak; Stemper, Samuel - 2024 - This version: September 19, 2024
We study the impact of global expansions in mobile internet access between 2000 and 2018 on student outcomes. We link geospatial data on the rollout of 3G mobile technology with over 2.5 million student test scores from 82 countries. Our findings indicate that the introduction of 3G coverage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015069648
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Education for Growth in Sweden and the World
Krueger, Alan B.; Lindahl, Mikael - 1999
This paper tries to reconcile evidence on the effect of schooling on income and on GDP growth from the microeconometric and empirical macro growth literatures. Much microeconometric evidence suggests that education is an important causal determinant of income for individuals within countries as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014188705
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Chapter 43 Agriculture and Human Capital in Economic Growth: Farmers, Schooling and Nutrition
Huffman, Wallace E.; Orazem, Peter F. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 3: …, (pp. 2281-2341). 2007
the interactions between human capital, productivity and health are explored. Most of the world's growth in population … cases, improved nutrition helps raise labor productivity and allows individuals to work for longer hours, which makes human …This survey reviews the existing literature, identifying the contribution of agriculture, schooling, and nutrition to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024081
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Money counts, but so does timing : public investment and adult competencies
Cathles, Alison; Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2017
Numeracy skills of adults within and across 12 different countries in 2011 are strongly associated with the accumulated public investments in education received by these adults during their schooling. This paper confirms existing evidence that the timing of educational investments is important,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613140
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Threshold effects of human capital : schooling and economic growth
Ahsan, Humna; Haque, M. Emranul - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413235