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Beam, Emily A.; Mukherjee, Priya; Navarro-Sola, Laia - 2022

We conduct a randomized controlled trial with households of secondary school students in Bangladesh to investigate how parents adjust their investments in response to three educational interventions: an informational campaign about an educational phone application, an internet data subsidy, and...

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The state as social insurer, labour supply and investments in human capital

Eichner, Thomas - 1998

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Education as a Source of Economic Growth. Rate of Return to Schooling

Kassapi, Sophia - 2014

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Does Inequality Stifle Human Capital Accumulation?

Cha, Myung Soo - 2016

Using evidence on elite presence, land inequality, literacy, and primary schooling in pre-colonial, colonial, and South Korea, I show that inequality may help or check human capital accumulation depending on the nature of inequality and the type of learning. Little affected by the imposition of...

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Education as a Source of Economic Growth. Rate of Return to Schooling

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Children s health, human capital accumulation, and R&D-based economic growth

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We analyze the effects of children's health on human capital accumulation and on long-run economic growth. For this purpose we design an R&D-based growth model in which the stock of human capital of the next generation is determined by parental education and health investments. We show that i)...

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Education in economic theory

Osmanković, Jasmina; Jahić, Hatidža; Šehić, Ensar - In: Economic review : journal of economics & business 9 (2011) 1, pp. 63-78

This paper aims to show the evolution of the role and importance of education in economic theory, especially in … of the role and importance of education in the development process. Presentation of the classification theory refers to …: theories of economic development (the classical theory and contemporary models of development and underdevelopment) and …

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Violence and human capital investments

Koppensteiner, Martin; Menezes, Lvia - 2019

In this paper, we investigate the effect of student exposure to homicides on their educational performance and human capital investments. Combining a number of large georeferenced administrative datasets from Brazil, we estimate the effect of exposure to homicides in the public way on these...

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Education and Growth : Where All the Education Went

Breton, Theodore R. - 2016

We investigate why the economics literature often finds a negative relationship between increased schooling and GDP growth over short periods. We show that increases in GDP in 98 countries during five-year intervals are correlated with the increases in adults' average schooling during the prior...

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