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Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584694
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Child Labor and the Education of a Society
Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - 2001
We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262545
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Child Labor and the Education of a Society
Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761977
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Gender Bias in Education during Conflict: Evidence from Assam
Roy, Sutanuka; Singh, Prakarsh - 2016
Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005–14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525023
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Human Capital Spillovers and Economic Performance in the Workplace in 2004: Some British Evidence
Metcalfe, Renuka; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper considers the impact of education and training on both individual and co-worker pay and establishment … Questionnaire. This enables us to assess the impact of workplace education and training using both subjective (managers’ assessments …) and objective data on productivity, profits and establishment survival. We establish that workplace education and training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822352
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Another Look at the New York City School Voucher Experiment
Krueger, Alan B.; Zhu, Pei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper reexamines data from the New York City school choice program, the largest and best implemented private school scholarship experiment yet conducted. In the experiment, low-income public school students in grades K-4 were eligible to participate in a series of lotteries for a private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822448
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Diverging Patterns of Education Premium and School Attendance in France and the US: A Walrasian View
de la Croix, David; Docquier, Frédéric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
the rise in education investment in France and the USA. We use a computable general equilibrium model with overlapping … generations of individuals, and endogenous education decisions. Human capital is made of two substitutable components, experience … and education, both of them evolve endogenously over time. We calibrate this model on the post-war period and run …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822629
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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024597
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Exploring the Role of Skills and Health Using Data on Adoptees and Twins
Lundborg, Petter; Nordin, Martin; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children …'s cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371896
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Differences in Employment Outcomes for College Town Stayers and Leavers
Winters, John V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
recent graduates in the area after they finish their education. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as "college …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796445