This paper investigates Becker, Hornung and Woessmann’s recent claim that education had an important causal effect on … problems, notably the omission of relevant variables which leads to serious bias in the estimated effect of education. When … these problems are corrected, the conclusions of Becker, Hornung and Woessmann no longer hold. Education did not play an …

This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The … findings point at a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education (primary education) tends to promote terrorism … education (university education) reduces terrorism in a cluster of countries where conditions are more favorable. This suggests …

effect of entering secondary school as opposed to leaving school after primary education) is positive and amounts to a 4 …We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education (i.e. the …

This paper studies oligopolistic competition in education markets when schools can be private and public and when the … quality of education depends on “peer group” effects. In the first stage of our game schools set their quality and in the …. When there are no peer group effects, efficiency is achieved when (at least) all but one school are public. In particular …