Journal of Human Capital

2007 - 2025

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Volume 9, issue 4, 2015

Sibling Influence on the Human Capital of the Left-Behind pp. 403 - 438

Costanza Biavaschi, Corrado Giulietti and Klaus Zimmermann

Substitution between Individual and Source Country Characteristics: Social Capital, Culture, and US Labor Market Outcomes among Immigrant Women pp. 439 - 482

Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn

The Slowdown in the Economic Assimilation of Immigrants: Aging and Cohort Effects Revisited Again pp. 483 - 517

George Borjas

Immigration, Human Capital Formation, and Endogenous Economic Growth pp. 518 - 563

Isaac Ehrlich and Jinyoung Kim

Acquiring Human Capital through the Generations by Migration pp. 564 - 600

James Smith and Liam Delaney

Volume 9, issue 3, 2015

A Quality-Preserving Increase in Four-Year College Attendance pp. 265 - 297

Robert B. Archibald, David Feldman and Peter McHenry

The Impact of Skill-Based Immigration Restrictions: The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 pp. 298 - 328

Joyce Chen

The Height Production Function from Birth to Age Two pp. 329 - 363

Elisabetta De Cao

The Effect of Household Technology on Weight and Health Outcomes among Chinese Adults: Evidence from China's "Home Appliances Going to the Countryside" Policy pp. 364 - 401

Cheng Chen, Shin-Yi Chou and Robert Thornton

Volume 9, issue 2, 2015

How Do College Students Respond to Public Information about Earnings? pp. 117 - 169

Matthew Wiswall and Basit Zafar

Product Proliferation, Population, and Economic Growth pp. 170 - 197

Alberto Bucci

Exploring the Racial Divide in Education and the Labor Market through Evidence from Interracial Families pp. 198 - 238

Peter Arcidiacono, Andrew Beauchamp, Marie Hull and Seth Sanders

Higher Test Scores or More Schooling? Another Look at the Causes of Economic Growth pp. 239 - 263

Theodore Breton

Volume 9, issue 1, 2015

Explaining the Public-Sector Pay Gap: The Role of Skill and College Major pp. 1 - 44

Max Schanzenbach

Leadership Activities and Future Earnings: Is There a Causal Relation? pp. 45 - 63

Ozkan Eren and Serkan Ozbeklik

Overseas Deployment, Combat Exposure, and Well-Being in the 2010 National Survey of Veterans pp. 64 - 93

Ryan D. Edwards

Height, Human Capital, and Earnings: The Contributions of Cognitive and Noncognitive Ability pp. 94 - 115

Andreas Schick and Richard Steckel

Volume 8, issue 4, 2014

The Effects of Vouchers on School Results: Evidence from Chile's Targeted Voucher Program pp. 351 - 398

Juan Correa, Francisco Parro and Loreto Reyes

No Pass No Drive: Education and Allocation of Time pp. 399 - 431

Rashmi Barua and Marian Vidal-Fernandez

The Impact of Pharmaceutical Innovation on Disability Days and the Use of Medical Services in the United States, 1997-2010 pp. 432 - 480

Frank Lichtenberg

When Should Children Start School? pp. 481 - 536

Dionissi Aliprantis

Volume 8, issue 3, 2014

Quality of Work Experience and Economic Development: Estimates Using Canadian Immigrant Data pp. 199 - 234

Serge Coulombe, Gilles Grenier and Serge Nadeau

Health Capital and Human Capital as Explanations for Health-Related Wage Disparities pp. 235 - 279

Donna Gilleskie and Denise Hoffman

The Role of Gender in Promotion and Pay over a Career pp. 280 - 317

John Addison, Orgul Ozturk and Si Wang

Postschooling Training Investment and Employer Learning pp. 318 - 349

Baris Kaymak

Volume 8, issue 2, 2014

Maternity Leave, Effort Allocation, and Postmotherhood Earnings pp. 97 - 125

Evgenia Dechter

Targeting Noncognitive Skills to Improve Cognitive Outcomes: Evidence from a Remedial Education Intervention pp. 126 - 160

Helena Holmlund and Olmo Silva

Allocating Instruction Time: How Language Instruction Can Affect Multiple Skills pp. 161 - 198

Lex Borghans and Ron Diris

Volume 8, issue 1, 2014

Borrowing Constraints, College Aid, and Intergenerational Mobility pp. 1 - 41

Eric Hanushek, Charles Leung and Kuzey Yilmaz

Tax Evasion, Human Capital, and Productivity-Induced Tax Rate Reduction pp. 42 - 79

Max Gillman and Michal Kejak

A Test of the Becker-Tomes Model of Human Capital Transmission Using Microdata on Four Generations pp. 80 - 96

Mikael Lindahl, Mårten Palme, Sofia Sandgren-Massih and Anna Sjögren

Volume 7, issue 4, 2013

Health, Education, and the Postretirement Evolution of Household Assets pp. 297 - 339

James Poterba, Steven Venti and David A. Wise

Dementia Risk and Financial Decision Making by Older Households: The Impact of Information pp. 340 - 377

Joanne Hsu and Robert Willis

Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Physical Activity pp. 378 - 410

Henry Saffer, Dhaval Dave, Michael Grossman and Leigh Ann Leung

Equilibrium Health Spending and Population Aging in a Model of Endogenous Growth: Will the GDP Share of Health Spending Keep Rising? pp. 411 - 447

Isaac Ehrlich and Yong Yin

Volume 7, issue 3, 2013

How Rapidly Does Science Leak Out? A Study of the Diffusion of Fundamental Ideas pp. 191 - 229

James Adams and J. Roger Clemmons

The Missing Link: Estimating the Impact of Incentives on Teacher Effort and Instructional Effectiveness Using Teacher Accountability Legislation Data pp. 230 - 273

Tom Ahn

Health and Development: A Neoclassical Perspective pp. 274 - 295

Casper Hansen

Volume 7, issue 2, 2013

A Theory of Worker Turnover and Knowledge Transfer in High-Technology Industries pp. 107 - 129

Kameshwari Shankar and Suman Ghosh

Tobacco Control Policies, Birth Outcomes, and Maternal Human Capital pp. 130 - 160

Sara Markowitz, E. Kathleen Adams, Patricia M. Dietz, Viji Kannan and Tong Van T.

Estimating the Returns to Firm-Sponsored On-the-Job and Classroom Training pp. 161 - 189

Benoit Dostie

Volume 7, issue 1, 2013

Does the Clustering of Immigrant Peers Affect the School Performance of Natives? pp. 1 - 25

Inés Hardoy and Pål Schøne

The Interaction between Human and Physical Capital Accumulation and the Growth-Inequality Trade-off pp. 26 - 75

Stephen J Turnovsky and Aditi Mitra

Funding, School Specialization, and Test Scores: An Evaluation of the Specialist Schools Policy Using Matching Models pp. 76 - 106

Steve Bradley, Giuseppe Migali and Jim Taylor

Volume 6, issue 4, 2012

Why We Fight: Understanding Military Participation over the Life Cycle pp. 279 - 315

David R. Mann

The Demand for Health Care by the Poor under Universal Health Care Coverage pp. 316 - 335

Jacob Arendt

Does the Labor Market Reward Easy Certificates? Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 336 - 367

Munshi Sulaiman

Volume 6, issue 3, 2012

The Spirit of the Welfare State? Adaptation in the Demand for Social Insurance pp. 187 - 223

Martin Ljunge

Plastic Surgery: Investment in Human Capital or Consumption? pp. 224 - 250

Soohyung Lee and Keunkwan Ryu

The Benefits of Breast Feeding across the Early Years of Childhood pp. 251 - 277

Clive R. Belfield and Inas Kelly

Volume 6, issue 2, 2012

Welfare Effects of Privatizing Public Education When Human Capital Investments Are Risky pp. 87 - 123

Fabian Kindermann

Are Women Overinvesting in Education? Evidence from the Medical Profession pp. 124 - 149

Keith Chen and Judith Chevalier

International Evidence on the Gender Gap in Education over the Past Six Decades: A Puzzle and an Answer to It pp. 150 - 185

Francisco Parro

Volume 6, issue 1, 2012

The Effects of Participation in Public Child Care Centers: Evidence from Chile pp. 1 - 34

Grace E. Noboa-Hidalgo and Sergio Urzua

Negative and Positive Assimilation, Skill Transferability, and Linguistic Distance pp. 35 - 55

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

Monetary Incentives and Student Achievement in a Depressed Labor Market: Results from a Randomized Experiment pp. 56 - 85

Maria De Paola, Vincenzo Scoppa and Rosanna Nisticò