timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were … counterfactuals for treated households with families who experience the same shock a few years later. We find a sharp break in parents …

timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were … counterfactuals for treated households with families who experience the same shock a few years later. We find a sharp break in parents …

The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In … instruments in income regressions. …

Recent empirical work questions the negative relationship between family size and children’s attainments proposed by …

find a wage penalty of 1.1-2.0 percent for students born in August (the youngest) compared to students born in September …. Younger students are more likely to pursue an apprenticeship and less likely to have higher education. After five years of …

students early on were separated between academic and vocational tracks, in favor of more comprehensive schools. The effects of … these reforms have generally been difficult to evaluate and their consequences for students' educational and labor market … performing students. Though one important motive behind the policy change was to enable all upper secondary school graduates to …

forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60 % of …

generates a higher income, but only for entrepreneurs: This finding supports Lazear's Jack-of-all-Trades theory. …