This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …

A pay-as-you-go pension scheme is associated with positive externalities of having children and providing them with … education, we discuss internalization policies associated with child benefits in the pension formula. The second-best scheme …

This paper discusses alternative ways to deal with the positive externalities of having children in a pay …

In an environment with asymmetric information the implementation of a first-best efficient Clarke-Groves-Vickrey (D …

We investigate externalities in higher education enrollment over the course of development in a two-sector model. Each … acquiring human capital. Both sectors exhibit productivity externalities in the size of the skill-specific labor and in the … stages of development witness underenrollment in higher education, while highly developed economies experience overenrollment. …

economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible … evidence on which education policy reforms may be able to bring about the simulated improvements in educational outcomes. …

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 …

that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the …

Protestant economic history of Becker and Woessmann (2009), where Protestantism first led to better education, which in turn … explanation, where a Protestant work ethic first led to industrialization which then increased the demand for education. …