causal effect of human capital on income, net of the innovation channel. …

heterogeneity. We argue that serfdom hampered peasants’ demand for education whereas the successive emancipation triggered a demand …

The interaction between investment in children’s education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The … causal effect of education is identified through exogenous variation in enrollment rates due to differences in landownership …

This study investigates whether young unemployed graduates who accept a job below their level of education accelerate … or delay the transition into a job that matches their level of education. We adopt the Timing of Events approach to … started searching for a job right after leaving formal education. We find that overeducation is a trap. This trap is …

respect to education policy, our findings suggest that early school tracking might increase disadvantages for students with …

While women's employment opportunities, relative wages, and the child quantity-quality trade-off have been studied as … factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine … Prussian county data from three censuses - 1816, 1849, and 1867 - to estimate the relationship between women's education and …