education decisions. We identify bilateral migration costs and their legal component for each pair of countries and two classes … inequality are gradual and cumulative. In case of a complete liberalization, the world average level of GDP per worker increases … by 20 percent in the short-run, and by more than 55 percent after 50 years. The world average index of inequality …

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 …

In contexts such as education and sports, skill-accumulation of individuals over time crucially depends on the amount …

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

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 … effect of entering secondary school as opposed to leaving school after primary education) is positive and amounts to a 4 …

Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population – especially low-income and … “intermediate” inputs in education for treatment students. …

We illustrate a novel informational feature of education, which the government may utilize. Discretionary decisions of … individuals to acquire education may serve as an additional signal (to earned labor income) on the underlying unobserved innate … education, as a supplement to the labor income tax. …

partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U …-tax inequality if it spent more on education. …In many OECD countries income inequality has risen, but surprisingly redistribution as well. The theory attributes this …