[PDF] Top 20 Essays on human capital

... the human brain is a billion years of experience about the nature of the world and how to survive in ...of human thought, effective only because it is supported by this much older and much more powerful, ... See full document

... Chapter 1 argues that gender differences in occupations, particularly in the non-college labor market, lead women to choose to attend college at greater rates than men.. In Chapter 2, I [r] ... See full document

... In my third chapter, I document a set of new evidence regarding the link between childhood health conditions and human capital formation. Previous research has shown that certain childhood health conditions ... See full document

... determine which mechanism is most important for explaining income-based achievement gaps, it is useful for helping understand which mechanisms are needed to provide a more complete picture of the child development ... See full document

... the effectiveness of this investment in human capital development. There has been a longstanding debate about the role of technology in education. As dis- cussed by Postman(1990)(98), frequent ICT upgrades ... See full document

... We use a difference-in-differences design, excluding the period affected by birth shifting, to test for lasting effects of additional family income at birth on child outcomes, as measure[r] ... See full document

... (Florida, 2007). He divides the creative class into CC and CP where the former contain scientists and engineers, university professors, poets and novelists, artists, entertainers, actors, designers and architects, as ... See full document

... So long as university graduates are bumping out high school graduates from the clerical jobs, the expected PV and hence the demand for higher education will rem[r] ... See full document

... We estimate the effect of variation in the number of days of exposure to prenatal food insecurity on cognitive development outcomes, controlling for community and birth month fixed effec[r] ... See full document

... Despite the importance of the effects of conflict on economic welfare and human capi- tal, there is only a small yet recently growing body of empirical literature. Moreover, theoretically, the impact of war ... See full document

... Chapter 1 examines the causal effect of additional secondary schooling on cognitive function in later life, using new methods in causal mediation analysis to explore the role of occupati[r] ... See full document

... of human capital to consider the importance of age ten psychological and behavioural development, alongside academic scores, in predicting final educational outcomes and age 26 labour market ...that ... See full document

... We calibrate the model to Colombia, which implemented massive student loan policies during the last decade and experienced an increase in the gap of quality of education provided by elit[r] ... See full document

... intangible capital play different roles across the four sector ...more human capital, larger firm size and better institutional quality generally increase the propensity and the amount of intangible ... See full document

... the capital composition equation, variables that capture economic impediments to importing and investing in efficient capital goods (or lack thereof) are ...the capital composition equation is ... See full document

... study capital utilization in the context of a model with production heterogeneity and all of them make strong irreversibility assumptions, that is assumptions on the possibility to reallocate ...idle ... See full document

... countries. In terms of two-way capital ‡ows, asymmetries must be involved. The analytical framework in this chapter is a model of a two-country world. Two types of assets, equity and bond, are assumed to be ... See full document

... the capital account convertibility, and strengthening the management of cross-border capital ...crisis, capital controls played a positive role in ensuring the overall security of foreign exchange ... See full document

... intellectual capital and corporate performance. Intellectual capital, human capital, structural capital and customer capital have significantly positive correlation with ... See full document

... Human capital theory suggests that people want to be compensated for their human capital investments, assuming that people seek to maximize their economic bene fi ts over their life ... See full document