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Protestantism and human capital in Guatemala and the Republic of Korea
McCleary, Rachel M. - 2013
Protestant missions from the United States entered the Republic of Korea and Guatemala at the same time (1884 and 1882 … Guatemala does not follow this pattern. Evangelical, Pentecostal, and neo-Pentecostal denominations and churches focused their … educational institutions and medical facilities) characterized Protestant missions in the Republic of Korea, but not Guatemala …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009734212
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Protestantism and Human Capital in Guatemala and the Republic of Korea
McCleary, Rachel M. - 2013
Protestant missions from the United States entered the Republic of Korea and Guatemala at the same time (1884 and 1882 … Guatemala does not follow this pattern. Evangelical, Pentecostal, and neo-Pentecostal denominations and churches focused their … educational institutions and medical facilities) characterized Protestant missions in the Republic of Korea, but not Guatemala …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507365
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Protestantism and Human Capital in Guatemala and the Republic of Korea
McCleary, Rachel M. - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2013
Protestant missions from the United States entered the Republic of Korea and Guatemala at the same time (1884 and 1882 … Protestant denominations in the Republic of Korea successfully promoted investment in human capital, the case of Guatemala does … institutions and medical facilities) characterized Protestant missions in the Republic of Korea, but not Guatemala. These diverging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010992049
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The effects of South Korean Protestantism on human capital and female empowerment, 1930-2010
Izumi, Yutaro; Park, Sangyoon; Yang, Hyunjoo - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 51 (2023) 2, pp. 422-438
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014466528
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The Long-Term Effects of Protestant Activities in China
Chen, Yuyu; Wang, Hui; Yan, Se - 2014
culture and religion merely reflect the latter? We explore this issue by studying the case of Protestantism in China during … socioeconomic indicators in 2000, we find that the spread of Protestantism has generated significant positive effects in long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014162924
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Non-financial hurdles for human capital accumulation : landownership in Korea under Japanese rule
Jun, Bogang; Gim, Tae yu - 2014
This paper suggests that inequality in landownership is a non-financial hurdle for human capital accumulation. It is the first to present evidence that inequality in landownership had an adverse effect on the level of public education in the Korean colonial period. Using a fixed effects model,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436198
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Back to the "normal" level of human-capital driven growth? : a note on early numeracy in Korea, China and Japan, 1550 - 1800
Baten, Jörg; Sohn, Kitae - 2013
This paper draws on a unique data set, hojok (household registers), to estimate numeracy levels in Korea, 1550–1630, and evidence on Japan and China from the early modern period until 1800. We found that a substantial share of East Asians rounded their ages to multiples of five. However, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009703509
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Fetal Exposure to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Colonial Korea and Human Capital Development
Hong, Sok Chul - 2017
The influenza pandemic of 1918 drastically affected colonial Korea infecting approximately 7.4 million people (44.3% of the total population) and killing approximately 140,000. This study examines the effect of fetal exposure to the pandemic on educational attainment, specifically, years of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942254
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Fetal Exposure to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Colonial Korea and Human Capital Development
Hong, Sok Chul - 2017
The influenza pandemic of 1918 drastically affected colonial Korea infecting approximately 7.4 million people (44.3% of the total population) and killing approximately 140,000. This study examines the effect of fetal exposure to the pandemic on educational attainment, specifically, years of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942267
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The economic burden of chronic diseases : estimates and projections for China, Japan, and South Korea
Bloom, David E.; Chen, Simiao; Kuhn, Michael; McGovern, … - 2017
We propose a novel framework to analyse the macroeconomic impact of noncommunicable diseases. We incorporate measures of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented production function, which enables us to determine the economic costs of chronic health conditions in terms of foregone gross...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653537