percent for males and females, respectively. In addition, we find that the effect of education on crime persists across birth …'s compulsory schooling reform as an instrument for years of schooling and a 25 percent random sample from Sweden …'s Multigenerational Register matched with more than 30 years of administrative crime records. The first stage of the analysis employs a …

affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor … attendance or education-related household expenditures. …

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 …

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 …

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 … education instead. The theory hence predicts that the social status of the family has a significant impact on educational choice …

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 … system of higher education, based on a unique dataset of all eligible high school pupils in an essentially closed region … role for travel costs: they hardly affect the participation decisions, but have a strong impact on the schooling decisions …