Tag: Human Capital

Increased Access to Postpartum Family Planning Services Encourages Modern Contraceptive Use and Healthy Inter-Birth Intervals

Dan Maggio is a PhD candidate at Cornell University and the Editor of Economics that Really Matters; Co-authors include Mahesh … More

Lessons on the importance of education supply and demand | NEUDC 2018

Heidi Kaila is a post-doctoral fellow at the College of Human Ecology; Germán Reyes is an Economics PhD student, both at Cornell … More

NBER Workshop Recap: Nutrition, Health, and Human Capital Formation

Mohamad Alloush is a PhD candidate in Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. Joanna Upton is a … More

What does a degree buy you? Signaling, human capital, and the importance of credentials

Alex Eble is a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at Brown University.  The puzzle Across the world, workers’ wages … More

Measuring hope: Lessons from rural Myanmar

Jeffrey Bloem is a Master’s student in Michigan State University’s Department of Agriculture, Food, and Resource Economics. Follow him on … More

Lessons from implementing a field survey in India

Soumya Gupta is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and a research scholar with the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition … More

Pathways behind intergenerational income mobility in rural Philippines: sons vs. daughters

Leah Bevis is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Recent findings by The Equality of Opportunity Project made big press in … More