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Tommaso Porzio

Researcher at Columbia University

Publications -  22
Citations -  425

Tommaso Porzio is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Human capital & General equilibrium theory. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 18 publications receiving 320 citations. Previous affiliations of Tommaso Porzio include Yale University & University of California, San Diego.

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Life Cycle Wage Growth across Countries

TL;DR: The authors found that experience-wage profiles are on average twice as steep in rich countries as in poor countries, and that more educated workers have steeper profiles than the less educated; this accounts for around one third of cross-country differences in aggregate profiles.
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Experience Matters: Human Capital and Development Accounting

TL;DR: This article found that experience-wage profiles are flatter in poorer countries than in richer countries and the most likely explanation for both findings is that workers accumulate less human capital from experience in poor countries.
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Aggregate Fertility and Household Savings: A General Equilibrium Analysis using Micro Data

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used micro data and an overlapping generations (OLG) model to show that general equilibrium (GE) forces are critical for understanding the relationship between aggregate fertility and household savings.
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Experience Matters: Human Capital and Development Accounting

TL;DR: This article found that experience-wage profiles are flatter in poorer countries than in richer countries and the most likely explanation for both findings is that workers accumulate less human capital from experience in poor countries.
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Life-cycle human capital accumulation across countries: lessons from US immigrants

TL;DR: The authors assesses cross-country variation in life-cycle human capital accumulation, using new evidence from US immigrants, and find that the returns to experience accumulated in an immigrant's birth country be...