Human Capital in Economic History: Measurement, Determinants and Implications

August 28-29, 2010

Tuebingen Tuebingen University

Organized by Professor Joerg Baten (Tuebingen University).

The Workshop Human Capital in Economic History: Measurement, Determinants and Implications will take place August 28-29, 2010 in Tuebingen and is organized by Professor Joerg Baten from Tuebingen University.

This twoday workshop focuses on the role of human capital and education in economic history. Many different questions of human capital formation will be addressed, for example:

• What caused rapid human capital development, what retarded it?
• Can we distinguish between schooling, cognitive abilities, and other determinants?
• Is there a special role for selective migration in the human capital formation process?
• What about inequalities, for example, between occupational groups and genders?
• Are there implications on economic growth and other spheres of human
  development?
• Are the expectations based on Unified Growth Theory (and other theories)
  supported by the evidence?
• Are there special archival sources for human capital measurement that have not been used before?

The Workshop will be supported by the ESF Network "Globalizing Europe" and the EU HIPOD initiative.

Deadline for submissions has passed. Notices of acceptance will be sent to corresponding authors by February 1st.