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study investigated the unique relationship between investment in human capital proxied by spending in education and health … investment comprising private and government health expenditures, primary, secondary and tertiary education expenditures were … problem of youth unemployment in SSA would require serial consistent disproportionate investment more in education than in …
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education, occupation, savings, inheritance, and parental background. Moreover, ability is significantly positively correlated …
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education, occupation, savings, inheritance, and parental background. Moreover, ability is significantly positively correlated …
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Generous maternity leave, affordable daycare, extensive social safety nets, excellent universal health care, and high-quality public schools, are all notable features of Nordic countries. There is a widespread belief that such strong public investments in children contribute to a levelled...
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It has been demonstrated that violent crime has profound effects on a number of socioeconomic outcomes. But, does day-to-day crime also shape human capital accumulation? We answer this question in the Indian context by combining multiple years of district-level data on the incidence of various...
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parental background or ethnicity matter across all education stages while the effect of short-term factors, such as family … explain selection at early stages of the education system. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that long-term factors, such as … income, wear out as individuals progress in the education system, suggesting a severe selection process at early stages. …
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We present evidence on changes in workplace segregation by education, race, ethnicity, and sex, from 1990 to 2000. The …, there was fairly substantial segregation by skill, as measured by education. Putting together the 1990 and 2000 data, we … find no evidence of declines in workplace segregation by race and ethnicity; indeed, black-white segregation increased …
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parental background or ethnicity matter across all education stages while the effect of short-term factors, such as family … explain selection at early stages of the education system. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that long-term factors, such as … income, wear out as individuals progress in the education system, suggesting a severe selection process at early stages. …
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We take advantage of recent advances in behavioral genetics to revisit a classic question in economics: how do parents respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on parental preferences regarding inequality in the...
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This paper studies how individuals believe human capital investments will affect their future career and family life. We conducted a survey of high-ability currently enrolled college students and elicited beliefs about how their choice of college major, and whether to complete their degree at...
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