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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2020
The consequences of early motherhood for the offspring are severely understudied, especially in low- and middle-income countries, where this phenomenon is prevalent. Using panel data from India, this paper investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital in terms of...
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A resource-rich neighbor is a misfortune : the spatial distribution of the resource curse in Brazil
Ishak, Phoebe W.; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume - 2020
We study the spatial distribution of the effect of oil and gas revenues on Brazilian municipalities, using variations in the international prices of oil and gas to establish causality. Oil and gas revenues increase economic activity, measured by night-time light emissions, in oil-producing...
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Testing unified growth theory : technological progress and the child quantity-quality trade-of
Madsen, Jakob Brøchner; Strulik, Holger - 2021
A core mechanism of unified growth theory is that accelerating technological progress induces mass education and, in … technological progress on investments in education and a strongly negative one on fertility. Using two-stage regressions, we assess …
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Is higher education mobility a good investment for EU lagging regions? : the case of Master and Back, an active labour market policy co‐financed by the European Social Fund. : XII...
Orrù, Enrico - 2012
). Human capital theory predicts investment in education to improve labour market outputs. However, when it comes to lagging …
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Measuring the regional "Third-Mission-Potential" of different types of HEIs
Jaeger, Angelika; Kopper, Johannes - 2013
The influence of higher education institutions on regional economic and social development is a topic of special … access to research facilities and highly qualified human capital. Traditional missions of higher education institutions … comprise the generation and accumulation of academic knowledge, and the diffusion of knowledge via academic education. More …
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Expenditure and displacement effects of students in the periphery : impact on the Scottish Highlands and Islands
Hermannsson, Kristinn - 2015
higher education. From the point of view of an individual student and his family significant amounts have to be spent to pay …
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Anticipated children and educational investment : evidence from the one-child policy in China
Raiber, Eva - 2021
children can affect the returns to education, the resources available for family consumption, and the incentives for pre …
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We don't need no education : the effect of persistent income shocks on human capital
Grâdšṭayn, Marq; Ishak, Phoebe W. - 2021
We explore the effects of persistent income shocks on human capital using oil price fluctuations in a large sample of relevant African countries and employing micro data from multiple waves of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS). Theoretically, such shocks enable human capital investment via...
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Estimating the long-term economic impacts of the Spanish universities on the national economy
Pastor, José Manuel; Peraita, Carlos; Pérez García, … - 2015
Universities are institutions whose activities have important economic and social impacts on their nearest surroundings. Most studies of the economic impact of universities analyze exclusively the impacts on the demand side, the effects on output, income and employment deriving from the...
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Matching higher education offer with labour market needs till 2020 : the case of Lodzkie region
Arendt, Lukasz; Rzenca, Agnieszka - 2014
requires smart investments. Therefore the higher education system, which is supposed to supply people with high-level skills … and knowledge, plays crucial role in this process. The paper focuses on the linkage between higher education offer and … labour market needs in the regional perspective. The goal of this paper is to analyse the extent to which higher education is …
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