Patience, Risk-Taking, and Human Capital Investment Across Countries

Capital inflows and investment in developing countries

Constraints to Human Capital Investment in Developing Countries

Acknowledgements Throughout the course of this dissertation, Lex Borghans has provided invaluable support. He has generously shared with me his brilliant, logical way of thinking on how to approach the world using economic science. He has been very generous with his time having many insightful conversations with me as I went through each step of the PhD. I will always be grateful for this. I wo...

Bank Capital and Risk-Taking

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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...

The Gender Pay Gap Across Countries: A Human Capital Approach

The gender wage gap varies across countries. For example, among OECD nations women in Australia, Belgium, Italy and Sweden earn 80% as much as males, whereas in Austria, Canada and Japan women earn about 60%. Current studies examining cross-country differences focus on the impact of labor market institutions such as minimum wage laws and nationwide collective bargaining. However, these studies ...