| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP1932 |
| DP1932 Deviations of Exchange Rates from Purchasing Power Parity: A Story Featuring Two Monetary Unions | |
| Ronald MacDonald; Tamim Bayoumi | |
| 发表日期 | 1998-07-31 |
| 出版年 | 1998 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | An important component of the long-run cost of a war is the loss of human capital, suffered by children of schooling age who receive less education because of the war. This paper shows that in the European countries involved in World War II, children who were ten years old during the conflict were significantly less likely to proceed into higher education. On the contrary, we find no effect for individuals in the same cohorts living in countries not involved in the war. Using data for Austria, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland, we estimate the cost of the war in terms of earning losses, suffered by those individuals who did not reach higher education because of the conflict and we calculate the implied loss of GDP for their countries. In order to identify this cost, we interpret our Instrumental Variable estimates as measures of the Local Average Treatment Effects (Angrist and Imbens, 1994) of education connected to our war instruments. Inasmuch as World War II has caused an increase of liquidity constraints for families with children of schooling age (e.g. the death of the father), our estimates may be considered as measures of the long lasting income losses that could be avoided in peaceful times by exogenously increasing the educational attainment of children in families, subject to constraints similar to those caused by the war (e.g. families with single mothers). |
| 关键词 | Endogeneity Returns to schooling Self selection Wage determination |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp1932 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/531065 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ronald MacDonald,Tamim Bayoumi. DP1932 Deviations of Exchange Rates from Purchasing Power Parity: A Story Featuring Two Monetary Unions. 1998. |
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