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Economic Growth and Cycles : Cross-Country Models of Education, Industry and Fertility and International Comparisons
Guisan, Maria-Carmen - 2008
The aim of this article is to point out the importance of education on a sustained economic development strategy …, having into account inter-sector relations and the influence of education in the growth of production per head. Three cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770814
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Should Global Rules Have Legal Teeth? Policing (Who Framework Convention on Tobacco Control) vs. Good Citizenship (Un Global Compact)
Sagafi-Nejad, Tagi - 2005
This study examines two multilateral initiatives, the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and the United Nations Secretary-General's Global Compact. These are two efforts to engage transnational corporations in the development process and in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014027471
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Intergenerational mobility in education : estimates of the worldwide variation
Leone, Tharcisio - In: Journal of economic development 44 (2019) 4, pp. 1-42
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162928
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Marital Sorting and Cross-Country Differences in Intergenerational Earnings Persistence
Tolstova, Vera - 2021
dynastic framework with human capital accumulation. The study finds that accounting for differences in taxation and education … matching is crucial to a model’s ability to generate realistic levels of intergenerational earnings correlation observed in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246176
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A New Cross-Country Investigation on the Patterns of Intergenerational Mobility
Cavaglia, Chiara - 2015
This research compares the patterns of intergenerational income mobility between fathers and sons in Germany, Italy, Great Britain and the United States. It is one of the few studies that investigates more than one dimension of mobility. It also proposes a new way to construct the mobility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014134758
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Measurement error in education and growth regressions
Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen N. - 2005
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335189
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Birth order effects in the developed and developing world : evidence from international test scores
Andersen, Dana C.; Güneş, Pinar Mine - 2023
This paper examines the effect of birth order and family size on human capital using a consistent measure of cognitive skills across a diverse set of countries with different levels of development from PISA dataset. Using a birth order index that is orthogonal to family size, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013542842
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Technology and education : computers, software, and the internet
Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348286
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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions
Portela, Miguel - 2008
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012774497
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Specifying human capital : a review, some extensions, and development effects
Woessmann, Ludger - 2000
, misspecifies the relationship between education and the stock of human capital. Based on human capital theory, the specification of … human capital should be extended to allow for decreasing returns to education and for differences in the quality of a year … of education. Cross-country differences in qualityadjusted human capital can account for about half the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473489