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The External Effect of Urban Schooling Attainment on Workers’ Incomes in Ecuador
Breton, Theodore R. - 2015
We estimate the direct and external effects of levels of schooling on personal income in Ecuador in 2011, using data … for 69,653 individuals in 567 municipalities. Using a Mincerian model that includes municipal levels of schooling and the … size of the municipality and controls for endogeneity, we find that each year of individual schooling raises individual …
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Providing the right skills to all in China : from "made in China" to "created in China"
Molnár, Margit; Koen, Vincent - 2015
China has made impressive strides in education in recent decades, even though the accumulation of human capital has lagged behind that of physical capital. Going forward, access to and quality of education will be key to sustain economic convergence with the most advanced economies and to offset...
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Internet Education and Economic Growth: Evidence from Cross-Country Regressions
Jin, Lawrence; Jin, Jang C. - In: Economies 2 (2014) 1, pp. 78-94
The effects of Internet education on economic growth are examined using a cross-section of 36 high-income countries. Internet usage rates are employed as a proxy for Internet education across countries. Regression results show that the frequent usage of the Internet has a positive and...
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Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283829
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Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288586
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From pensions to pupils? : schooling, resource constraints and old age pensions in Ireland 1901-11
Heaney, Tiarnán - 2024
that when poverty constrains schooling, unconditional cash transfers amplify a household's demand for education by reducing … the opportunity costs of schooling. …
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Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States
Hanushek, Eric A.; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307079
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Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States
Hanushek, Eric A.; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307361
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Educación: la mejor herencia. Decisiones educativas y expectativas de los padres de familia.
Ansión, Juan; Lazarte, Alejandro; Matos, Silvia; … - Departamento de Economía, Pontificia Universidad …
Sobre el tema de la educación todos tenemos opinión, porque todos hemos pasado por la escuela y la mayoría tenemos además hijos, sobrinos o nietos cuyo futuro nos preocupa. Más allá de ideas sugerentes y de análisis más o menos brillantes, no disponemos sin embargo sino de estudios muy...
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Human capital and growth in japan since 1970: converging to the steady state in a 1% world
Breton, Theodore R. - UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT - 2014
additional year of average adult schooling attainment raised GDP/adult directly and indirectly by 20 percent, and weekly hours … worked had an output elasticity of 0.5. The marginal product of schooling was double the marginal product of physical capital. …
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