Does trade policy influence schooling and child labor decisions in low income countries? We examine this question in … schooling and decline in child labor. These trends were attenuated in communities where employment was concentrated in … industries loosing tariff protection. The data suggest that this failure to follow the national trend of increasing schooling and …

How much would output increase if underdeveloped economies were to increase their levels of schooling? We contribute to … generated by more schooling. The advantage of our approach is that the upper bound is valid for any number of schooling levels … forms of endogenous technology response to changes in schooling. We also quantify the upper bound for all economies with the …

paid work, whereas for girls we find evidence of the adverse event having a beneficial impact on schooling. To explain …

primary schooling and literacy revolution in Europe. Under what conditions would we expect the same responses to globalization … in today's world? This paper argues that modern debates about inequality and schooling responses to globalization should …

The paper aims at studying determinants of schooling in traditional hierarchical societies confronted with an … children who do not belong to the ruling caste, migration is a social mobility factor that is enhanced by formal schooling …

This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the role of life expectancy for optimal schooling and … optimal schooling. The observed increase in survival rates during working ages that follows from the ``rectangularization'' of … the survival function is crucial for schooling and labor supply. The empirical results suggest that the relative benefits …

We analyze the determinants of participation (whether to study) and schooling (where and what to study) in a public … role for travel costs: they hardly affect the participation decisions, but have a strong impact on the schooling decisions …. In addition, high school background plays an important role in both the participation and schooling decisions. To …