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Armed Conflict and Early Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Cameroon's Anglophone Conflict [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 This paper examines the impact of the Anglophone Conflict in Cameroon on human capital accumulation. Using high-quality individual-level data on test scores and information on conflict-related violent events, a difference-in-differences design is employed to estimate the conflict's causal effects.
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Exploring the fertility trend in Egypt
Demographic Research, 2017 Background: The unusual fertility increase experienced by several Arab countries in the recent years is particularly visible in Egypt, where fertility declined very slowly after 2000 and started to increase again between 2008 and 2014.
Zakarya Al Zalak, Anne Goujon
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Rethinking value creation from the resource based view: the case of human capital in moroccan hotels [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 The growth of the modern knowledge-based economy is becoming less and less dependent on tangible assets and more on intangible ones. In this context, the role of human capital in the value creation process has become central. Despite the large amount of scientific work on human capital phenomena, little research has revealed the role of human capital ...
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Trials, 2020 Background Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a persistent and common mental disorder that entails significant impairments in role functioning and quality of life.
Pei Chen +4 more
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Bankruptcy Risk Induced by Career Concerns of Regulators [PDF]
arXiv, 2013 We introduce a model in which a regulator employs mechanism design to embed her human capital beta signal(s) in a firm's capital structure, in order to enhance the value of her post career change indexed executive stock option contract with the firm. We prove that the agency cost of this revolving door behavior increases the firm's financial leverage ...
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Coronary Angiography in Patients With Left Ventricular Hypertrabeculation/Noncompaction [PDF]
Texas Heart Institute JournalBackground Left ventricular hypertrabeculation/noncompaction (LVHT) is a cardiac abnormality of unknown pathogenesis, frequently associated with neuromuscular disorders. The relevance of coronary artery disease (CAD) in LVHT is largely unknown.
Nicolas de Cillia, MD +5 more
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On Capital Dependent Dynamics of Knowledge [PDF]
Acta Phys.Polon. B37 (2006) 3161-3170, 2006 We investigate the dynamics of growth models in terms of dynamical system theory. We analyse some forms of knowledge and its influence on economic growth. We assume that the rate of change of knowledge depends on both the rate of change of physical and human capital. First, we study model with constant savings.
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Is social capital associated with synchronization in human communication? An analysis of Italian call records and measures of civic engagement [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 Social capital has been studied in economics, sociology and political science as one of the key elements that promote the development of modern societies. It can be defined as the source of capital that facilitates cooperation through shared social norms.
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Do Pension Benefits Accelerate Cognitive Decline in Late Adulthood? Evidence from Rural China [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Economists have mainly focused on human capital accumulation rather than on the causes and consequences of human capital depreciation in late adulthood. To investigate how human capital depreciates over the life cycle, we examine how a newly introduced pension program, the National Rural Pension Scheme, affects cognitive performance in rural China.
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A Typology of Social Capital and Associated Network Measures [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 I provide a typology of social capital, breaking it down into seven more fundamental forms of capital: information capital, brokerage capital, coordination and leadership capital, bridging capital, favor capital, reputation capital, and community capital.
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