Human Capital Matters: China in Information Age

Human Capital in Information Economies

Introduction What is new about new media? Its development and use is more influenced by economic factors than the old media. And the new media is more central to the new economy. Indeed, an ever more popular theme in the scientific literature, government policy documents and the popular press, is that technologically advanced economies are in the process of moving beyond industrial capitalism t...

Community Matters in China

In China, a growing awareness that many areas have been left behind during an era characterized by market reform has raised concerns about the impact of community disadvantage on schooling. In this paper, I investigate whether villages exert distinct influences on student achievement. Building on these results, I explore the relationship between student achievement and resources present in the ...

Gray Matters: Fetal Pollution Exposure and Human Capital Formation

This paper examines the impact of fetal exposure to air pollution on 4th grade test scores in Santiago, Chile. We rely on comparisons across siblings which address concerns about locational sorting and all other time-invariant family characteristics that can lead to endogenous exposure to poor environmental quality. We also exploit data on air quality alerts to help address concerns related to ...

Human Capital Development Before Age Five

Human Capital, Age Structure and Growth Fluctuation

This paper assesses empirically the relationship between GDP per capita growth uctuations and the age structure and intensity of human capital across developed and developing countries We estimate a spatial vector autoregressive model of income dynamics where the economic distance between countries is de ned on their similarity in measures of human capital and its distribu tion across age group...