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Human Capital

Gary Becker
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The article was published on 1983-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 7118 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Human capital.

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Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the link between firm resources and sustained competitive advantage and analyzed the potential of several firm resources for generating sustained competitive advantages, including value, rareness, imitability, and substitutability.
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Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital

TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of social capital is introduced and illustrated, its forms are described, the social structural conditions under which it arises are examined, and it is used in an analys...

Forms of Capital

TL;DR: The notion of capital is a force inscribed in objective or subjective structures, but it is also a lex insita, the principle underlying the immanent regularities of the social world as mentioned in this paper, which is what makes the games of society, not least the economic game, something other than simple simple games of chance offering at every moment the possibility of a miracle.
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On the mechanics of economic development

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the prospects for constructing a neoclassical theory of growth and international trade that is consistent with some of the main features of economic development, and compare three models and compared to evidence.
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Some practical guidance for the implementation of propensity score matching

TL;DR: Propensity score matching (PSM) has become a popular approach to estimate causal treatment effects as discussed by the authors, but empirical examples can be found in very diverse fields of study, and each implementation step involves a lot of decisions and different approaches can be thought of.