Human capital :  advances in theory and evidence / 
edited by Joop Hartog and Henriëtte Maassen van den Brink. 
 - Cambridge, UK ;  New York :  Cambridge University Press,  2007. 
 - xii, 247 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Prologue / Joop Hartog and Henriëtte Maassen van den Brink -- Pt. 1. Measuring the benefits from human capital. What should you know about the private returns to education? / Joop Hartog and Hessel Oosterbeek ; The social returns to education / Mikael Lindahl and Erik Canton ; Returns to training / Edwin Leuven ; Human capital and entrepreneurs / Justin van der Sluis and C. Mirjam van Praag ; The effects of education on health / Wim Groot and Henriëtte Maassen van den Brink ; Are successful parents the secret to success? / Erik Plug -- Pt. 2. Applying and extending the human capital model. Overeducation in the labour market / Wim Groot and Henriëtte Maassen van den Brink ; Underinvestment in training? / Randolf Sloof, Joep Sonnemans and Hessel Oosterbeek ; Human capital and risk / Joop Hartog and Simona Maria Bajdechi -- Pt. 3. Policy interventions. Using (quasi-)experiments to evaluate education interventions / Hessel Oosterbeek ; Unemployment duration : policies to prevent human capital depreciation / Bas van der Klaauw ; Can we stimulate teachers to enhance quality? / Ib Waterreus ; Optimal tax and education policies and investments in human capital / Bas Jacobs. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780521873161 0521873169 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human capital
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD4904.7