Age-dependent human capital investments and socio-economic outcomes


Reuß, Karsten


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URL: https://madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/29930
URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-299307
Document Type: Doctoral dissertation
Year of publication: 2011
Place of publication: Mannheim
University: Universität Mannheim
Evaluator: Franz, Wolfgang
Date of oral examination: 7 December 2011
Publication language: English
Institution: School of Law and Economics > VWL (Franz 1997-2013, Em)
Subject: 330 Economics
Subject headings (SWD): Bildung , Intelligenzleistung , Persönlichkeit , Simulation , Lebenszyklus <Wirtschaft> , Ungleichheit
Keywords (English): cognitive skills , noncognitive skills , education , inequality , human capital , life cycle
Abstract: This dissertation studies determinants and consequences of human capital formation over the life cycle, starting in infancy. It consists of two main parts. In the first part a simulation model of life cycle skill formation is developed that investigates the relationship between investments in human capital and its labor markets outcomes as well as the resulting distribution of earnings in the population. The model is calibrated to investigate long run consequences of counterfactual human capital investment strategies into people in Germany and Europe. The second part employs ordinary least squares regression, cluster and factor analysis to study skill formation based on samples taken from the longitudinal Mannheim Study of Children at Risk. The results indicate a significant impact of parental investments on cognitive and mental skills that is decreasing over time. Thus, the inequality of parental investment starting in infancy (and earlier) has long run consequences for human capital formation. Implications for educational policies from an economic point of view are discussed.




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