internal rates of return that take into account tuition costs, income taxes and nonlinearities in the earnings …

Using unique data on preference rankings for all high school students who apply for college in Ireland, we investigate … mediator - students who rank high in math are more likely to choose STEM subjects in school and this can partly explain their …

-American children in the 1960s. We discuss the design of the experiment, compromises in and adjustments to the randomization protocol …

This paper examines the impact of the iconic Perry Preschool Project on the children and siblings of the original … participants. The children of treated participants have fewer school suspensions, higher levels of education and employment, and … lower levels of participation in crime, compared with the children of untreated participants. Impacts are especially …

school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult … for ability or achievement and across a range of countries, ages, and types of educational institutions, students that are … into other educational phenomena such as the extent to which students benefit from high ability peers and the presence of a …

children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly linked to … inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when children enter … growing fraction of American children across all race and ethnic groups is being raised in dysfunctional families. Investment …

early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …

emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …