Human Capital and Development Accounting: New Evidence from Wage Gains at Migration

Negative shocks to childhood health can have a lasting impact on the economic success of an individual by altering families' schooling investment decisions. This article introduces a new dataset of brothers serving in World War II and uses it to demonstrate that improvements in childhood health led to substantial increases in educational attainment in the first one-half of the twentieth century. By exploiting variation in health within families, the data show that this relationship between childhood health and educational attainment holds even after controlling for both observed and unobserved household and environmental characteristics.

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New evidence and new methods to measure human capital inequality before and during the industrial revolution: France and the US in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries

The Economic History Review ◽

10.1111/j.1468-0289.2009.00499.x ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 63 (2) ◽

pp. 452-478 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

DOROTHEE CRAYEN ◽

JOERG BATEN

Keyword(s):

Human Capital ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

New Methods ◽

The Us ◽

New Evidence

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Age, Human Capital, and the Quality of Work: New Evidence from Old Masters

The B E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy ◽

10.1515/bejeap-2012-0030 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 687-708 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Thomas Bayer ◽

John Page ◽

Yaron Raviv ◽

Joshua Rosett

Keyword(s):

Human Capital ◽

Capital Investment ◽

Formal Education ◽

Quality Of Work ◽

Output Quality ◽

Age Profile ◽

Auction Prices ◽

Individual Ability ◽

New Evidence

Abstract The links between individual ability, human capital investment, and quality of output are generally hard to examine because in most situations output results from multiple inputs and often through complex contracting processes. We overcome these problems by examining life-cycle artistic output quality as reflected in art auction prices. First, we observe an inverted U-shaped age-quality of work profile similar to the conventional age–wage profile. Second, we find that the degree of concavity increases for those with higher native ability. Third, we find that working for a patron rather than selling directly to the market is associated with a flatter age profile. Fourth, we find evidence that formal education increases the concavity of the age-quality of work profile. These results are consistent with the theory and demonstrate that artists respond to incentives to invest in human capital.

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Female entrepreneurship and growth in Cameroon

African Journal of Economic and Management Studies ◽

10.1108/ajems-10-2012-0067 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 107-119 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Françoise Okah-Efogo ◽

Gaëlle Tatiana Timba

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Human Capital ◽

Statistical Analysis ◽

Design Methodology ◽

Female Entrepreneurship ◽

Content Type ◽

Theoretical Assumptions ◽

New Evidence ◽

The Relationship ◽

Simple Statistical Analysis

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to supplement the literature on the effect of female entrepreneurship on economic growth by bringing new evidence for the case of SMEs owned by women in Cameroon. Design/methodology/approach – Effects of female entrepreneurship on Cameroonian economic growth are analyzed through a simple statistical analysis. Findings – Our results reveal that there is a growing female entrepreneurship in Cameroon, localized in many different sectors of activity. Moreover, these SMEs are opportunity entrepreneurship which contributes to economic growth by considerably reducing unemployment particularly for women, generating revenues for government and enhancing human capital skills. Research limitations/implications – The study suggests an investment in SMEs owned by women and an investment in education and skills of those women in order to positively affect economic growth. Originality/value – Many studies have focussed their attention on the relationship between SMEs and economic growth, but few attempted to evaluate the theoretical assumptions in case studies and in a gender perspective.

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