Human capital acquisition and occupational choice: Implications for economic development

© 2017 Elsevier Inc. Using household-level data from Mexico we document patterns among schooling, entrepreneurial decisions and household characteristics such as assets, talent of household members and age of the household head. Motivated by our findings, we develop a heterogeneous-agent, incomplete...

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Main Authors: Mestieri, Martí, Schauer, Johanna, Townsend, Robert M
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier BV 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/134526