Journal of Human Capital

2007 - 2026

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Too Many Graduates? A Matching Theory of Educational Mismatch pp. 423 - 446: Patrizia Ordine and Giuseppe Rose
Economic Gains from Educational Reform by US States pp. 447 - 486: Eric Hanushek, Jens Ruhose and Ludger Woessmann
Hierarchical Religions and Female Education pp. 487 - 507: Seth Norton and Annette Tomal
Thought for Food: Nutritional Information and Educational Disparities in Diet pp. 508 - 552: Hale Koç and Hans van Kippersluis

Special Issue in Honor of Ronald H. Coase pp. 297 - 309: Isaac Ehrlich
The Role of Entrepreneurial Human Capital as a Driver of Endogenous Economic Growth pp. 310 - 351: Isaac Ehrlich, Dunli Li and Zhiqiang Liu
New Institutions for New Nations pp. 352 - 372: Stanley L. Engerman
A Very Coasian Revolution pp. 373 - 396: David Friedman
Institutions and Managerial Task Allocation: Evidence from Chinese Entrepreneurs pp. 397 - 422: Di Guo, Kun Jiang and Chenggang Xu

Earnings over the Life Course: General versus Vocational Education pp. 167 - 212: Bart Golsteyn and Anders Stenberg
Understanding Wage Growth: Estimating and Testing Learning-by-Doing pp. 213 - 246: Philippe Belley
Student Appearance and Academic Performance pp. 247 - 262: Rey Hernández-Julián and Christina Peters
Getting Weighed Down: The Effect of Childhood Obesity on the Development of Socioemotional Skills pp. 263 - 295: Nicole Black and Sonja C. Kassenboehmer

Expanding College Access in Taiwan, 1978-2014: Effects on Graduate Quality and Income Inequality pp. 1 - 34: Shao-Hsun Keng, Chun-Hung Lin and Peter Orazem
Academic Drop-Out and the Great Recession pp. 35 - 71: Effrosyni Adamopoulou and Giulia Martina Tanzi
Human Capital Accumulation and Transition to Skilled Employment pp. 72 - 105: Konstantinos Angelopoulos, Jim Malley and Apostolis Philippopoulos
The Labor Market Effects of Academic and Vocational Education over the Life Cycle: Evidence Based on a British Cohort pp. 106 - 166: Giorgio Brunello and Lorenzo Rocco

Boy-Girl Differences in Parental Time Investments: Evidence from Three Countries pp. 399 - 441: Michael Baker and Kevin Milligan
Locus of Control and Mothers’ Return to Employment pp. 442 - 481: Eva Berger and Luke Haywood
Student Awareness of Costs and Benefits of Educational Decisions: Effects of an Information Campaign pp. 482 - 519: Martin McGuigan, Sandra McNally and Gill Wyness
A Life Course Perspective on Gender Differences in Cognitive Functioning in India pp. 520 - 563: Ilke Onur and Malathi Velamuri

High School Human Capital Portfolio and College Outcomes pp. 267 - 302: Guy Tchuente
Are Overqualified Migrants Self-Selected? Evidence from Central and Eastern European Countries pp. 303 - 346: Klaus Nowotny
School Entry, Educational Attainment, and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of a Local Average Treatment Effect pp. 347 - 376: Rashmi Barua and Kevin Lang
Fertility, Migration, and Maternal Wages: Evidence from Brazil pp. 377 - 398: Jaqueline Oliveira

Career Interruption and Productivity: Evidence from Major League Baseball during the Vietnam War Era pp. 159 - 185: Brennan Mange and David Phillips
New Firm Survival: Isolating the Role of Founders’ Human Capital in Accounting for Firm Longevity pp. 186 - 211: Grégoire Cauchie and Nicolas Vaillant
Income and Schooling: Evidence from International Oil Price Shocks pp. 212 - 234: Markus Brueckner and Mark Gradstein
Returns to Education and Educational Outcomes: The Case of the Spanish Housing Boom pp. 235 - 265: Ainoa Aparicio

Aggregate Effects of Gender Gaps in the Labor Market: A Quantitative Estimate pp. 1 - 32: David Cuberes and Marc Teignier
Does Employment Protection Raise Stress? A Cross-Country and Cross-Province Analysis pp. 33 - 66: Nicolas Lepage-Saucier and Etienne Wasmer
How Important Is Secondary School Duration for Postsecondary Education Decisions? Evidence from a Natural Experiment pp. 67 - 108: Tobias Meyer and Stephan Thomsen
Household Electrification, Fertility, and Employment: Evidence from Hydroelectric Dam Construction in Colombia pp. 109 - 158: Louise Grogan

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

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

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

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