Human Capital, Schooling and Health Returns

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A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling, particularly in low-income countries. Estimates of the productive returns from these three forms of human capital investment are nonetheless qualified by a number of limitations in our data and analytical methods. This paper reviews the problems that occupy researchers in this field and summarizes accumulating evidence of empirical regularities. Social experiments must be designed to assess how randomized policy interventions motivate families and individuals to invest in human capital, and then measure the changed wage opportunities of those who have been induced to make these investments.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Center Discussion Paper ; No. 853

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Health Behavior ; Analysis of Education
• Subject: Health ; Productivity ; Human Capital ; Schooling ; Returns ; Gesundheit ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Produktivität ; Ernährung ; Bildungsinvestition ; Bildungsertrag ; Lohn ; Welt

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Schultz, T. Paul
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Yale University, Economic Growth Center
• (where): New Haven, CT
• (when): 2003

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/98393
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET