Human capital

Handbook of Cliometrics

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 55-86

  Goldin, Claudia ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academy; Age of modern medicine; Antibiotics; Compulsory education; Economic growth; Education; Formal schooling; Health; Health human capital; Hemographic transition; High school; High school movement; Human capital; Indentured servitude; Institutions; Malthusian equilibrium; Nutrition; Public health interventions; Rate bill; Return to schooling; School district; School enrollment; Slavery; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944557977     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40406-1_3     Document Type: Chapter

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