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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"human capital investments"”.
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Essays on Human Capital Investments: Pharmaceuticals and Education
This thesis consists of four essays on individual health behaviour and investment in higher education. Three of them consider different aspects of pharmaceutical utilization and aim at explaining some of the observed individual variation in access and adherence to treatment regimens. The fourth …
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Essays on human capital investments in developing countries
… chapters that explore determinants of parental investments in their children’s health and education in developing countries. Below are the individual abstracts for each chapter. Chapter 1: Child Ability, Parental Investments and Child Nutrition in Ecuador This paper investigates the role of …
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Three essays on human capital: investments, resilience, and spillovers
… studies focusing on different dimensions of human capital: investment decisions, resilience, and spillovers. Chapter 1 investigates the importance of subjective expectations of returns to and effort costs of maternal investments in newborns. We find heterogeneity across mothers in expected …
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Essays on the economic effects of human capital investments
… three essays analyzing the economic effects of human capital investments. The first chapter evaluates the effects of a major educational reform in India called Operation Blackboard. The teacher component of Operation Blackboard increased the number of primary school teachers by ten percent. I …
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Impact of Typhoons on Children's Human Capital Investments in Filipino Households
… typhoons affect household allocation of basic human capital investments, such as breastfeeding duration. Using OLS estimation and a distributed lag model, I find that children are significantly breastfed about 4.8 months less on average in the year following a storm. This effect is mostly seen …
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Human Capital Investments by Scientists and Engineers: on-the-Job Training and Job Information
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Asset sharing and stakeholder arrangements : human capital investments, the distribution of powers, and the role of property rights and economic institutions
Theories of human capital investment, which emphasize encouraging and protecting investments in human capital, have become salient in rationalizing the adoption of firm asset-sharing and employee stakeholder arrangements, such as Employee Stock Ownership Plans. Yet, mechanisms such as bargaining …
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Market valuation of firm investments in training and human capital management
The relationship between a firm’s human capital management and its performance is a topic of growing interest in recent years. With the increasing role of technology and the rapid innovations in many industries, having highly skilled and knowledgeable employees is often necessary for success. Firms …
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The immigrant experience : networks, skills and the next generation
… than the remaining population. Using a standard human capital framework where individuals choose how much to invest in both their children's and their own human capital, I show that a gap in education can arise in the absence of differences in unobservable characteristics between immigrants and …
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Building a diverse health professions workforce? Changes in enrollment and completion among underserved populations in grant supported health professions pathways
… the question remains do significant federal human capital investments in health professions education contribute to diversity among health professionals (Carnevale et al., 2012; Smedley et al., 2004). Human capital theory posits that investments in human capital, including those that support …
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An analysis of the cost-effectiveness of selected government- supported training programs
… externalities may lead to under investment in human capital, i.e., a non-Pareto equilibrium in which marginal social return to human capital investment exceeds its marginal social cost. When this situation occurs, it may be economically sound to have the public sector make selected human …
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Determinants of non-farm self-employment in rural Virginia
… comparisons. The empirical results reveal that human capital characteristics influence the likelihood of labor force participation. A gender-disaggregated analysis illustrates that presence of pre-schoolers, and an employed spouse all decrease the probability of being in the labor force for …
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The Impact of Investing in Human Capital in Employees Performance
… study investigated on the impact of investing in human capital on employees’ performance success in Tanzania, using a case study of the National Microfinance Bank (NMB) Mkwawa Branch in Iringa Region. Specifically to: assess the relationship between human capital investments and employees …
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Financial evolution and income inequality: channels and evidence
… with particular emphasis on the role of human capital investments. Contributing to income inequality research field, the results show that financial liberalisation, removal of credit controls in particular, reduces income inequality through creating a more convenient path for the low …
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Essays on health and education in development economics
… In contrast, in chapter 3 I focus on how human capital investments leads to increases in child health. I shift from the link between education and health to the pathways through which income affects health in chapter 4. I explore the impact of a pension program that target elderly …
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Youth unemployment and the transition from school to work in Cape Town
… country's social safety net, social returns on investments in education and health and even infrastructure depend on the absorption of youth into a productive place in society. The labour market sits centre stage of all of this. The softest version of the South African dream is that …
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Civil conflict and international migration in Nepal
… work-related emigration, affecting education and human capital investments, labour supply, and local economic activity. While a few prior studies look at the effects of Nepal’s conflict on emigration, many key features of the conflict are ignored. In particular, heterogeneity due to the highly …
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Essays on the economics of education, gender, and public policy
… to a gendered social environment affects women's human capital investments. Applying event study and synthetic control analyses to newly collected historical data, we find that the share of women majoring in STEM at newly coeducational colleges declined by 2.0 percentage points (24%) after ten …
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Empirical studies in public economics in developing countries
… transfers may be viewed as returns to dowry and human capital investments made by parents. These interpretations are not incompatible-- parental investment may endow daughters with the bargaining power to channel resources towards their parents. In conclusion, the evidence addresses both gender …
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Three Essays on U.S. Social Policy’s Impact on the Human Capital Development of Young Adults At-Risk of Poverty
… of anticipated and unexpected effects on the human capital investments of young adults at-risk of living in poverty in the United States. My dissertation investigates how three large-scale public programs – means-tested, cash welfare (e.g., Aid to Families with Dependent Children and Temporary …
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