This chapter explores the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. They are distinguished from the labor market outcomes of education in terms … of higher earnings and wage rates. The focus is on identifying causal effects of education and on mechanisms via which …

can speak the same language. The value of trade increases in each participant's level of education. We compare a bilingual … education system, under which the individuals who take education become bilingual, with a unilingual system, under which the … optimal when education levels are centralized. In the decentralized equilibrium, individuals (i) vote over education systems …

highly paid occupations and with moderate or high education. Results from large samples of 17 manufacturing industries … differences in worker occupation, education, and sex, plant capital intensity and size, as well as the influences of yearly …

data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education – but not income or urbanization – is …

, education and labor market success. We conclude that there do not appear to be serious harmful health effects of moderate …

Many economists and educators favour public support for education on the premise that education improves the overall … quality of life of citizens. However, little is known about the different pathways through which education shapes people …'s satisfaction with life overall. One reason for this is because previous studies have traditionally analysed the effect of education …

average literacy ability in fifth grade. © 2015 Association for Education Finance and Policy …

implementing policies that not only target the quality and quantity of education, but also change social attitudes in favor of … education and against idleness and child labor. …

. Instrumental-variable models that use skill variation stemming from school attainment, parental education, or compulsory …