infer causation from education to smoking and find strong evidence that education, whether it be measured in years of …, more particularly the probability of smoking regularly. Interestingly, however, while we find that more education … substantially increases the probability of never smoking, our other main finding is suggestive that increased education has a …

individuals with low levels of education, and to situate it in the context of the evolution in the value of a high school diploma … over the 1981-1996 period, conditional on not pursuing post-secondary education. To do so I make use of Statistics Canada … whether the value of holding a high school diploma (excluding the option value of pursuing post-secondary education) has …

Recent studies have tried to provide rigorous tests of causal effects of education levels on health status. Some of … consists in using exogenous shocks on education levels resulting from changes in compulsory schooling regulations. Data from …

In France, the number of years of schooling is high, and so is spending on education. Over the past thirty years …, more generally, is the impact of education on the growth of productivity in France in the medium term? Neo-classical growth … of the number of years of schooling. Second, it does not mean that all forms of education expenditures have a high …

The topic of this paper is public financing of university education in Quebec, which is analysed from the point of view …