Investment in Human Capital for Inclusive and Green Growth Development Strategy

development and implementation of an optimized control strategy for induction machine in an electric vehicle

in the area of automotive engineering there is a tendency to more electrification of power train. in this work control of an induction machine for the application of electric vehicle is investigated. through the changing operating point of the machine, adapting the rotor magnetization current seems to be useful to increase the machines efficiency. in the literature there are many approaches wh...

HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT AND PARENTAL INVESTMENT IN INDIA By

In this paper we estimate production functions for cognition and health throughout four stages of childhood from 5-15 years of age using two cohorts of children drawn from the Young Lives Survey for India. The inputs into the production function include parental background, prior child cognition and health and child investments. We allow investments to be endogenous and they depend on local pri...

Wage Growth, Human Capital Investment and Risk Preference

The aim of this paper is to explore how interpersonal variation in risk preference affects human capital investment and wage growth. To date, there has been a distinct lack of empirical research in this area despite the fact that the risk preference of individuals plays a key role in the theory of human capital accumulation. We investigate the link between risk preference, human capital investm...

Human Capital and Investment Policy

The literature relates human capital costs to firm leverage (Berk, Stanton, and Zechner (2010) and Chemmanur, Cheng, and Zhang (2013)) and mergers and acquisitions (Lee, Mauer, and Xu (2017)). In this paper, we study the relation between a firm’s human capital costs and investment policy. We first present a simple theoretical setting to illustrate the positive effects of risky investment on ave...

Public-private partnership in development cooperation Potential and pitfalls for Inclusive Green Growth