Using new and unique panel data, we investigate the role of long-term health and childhood malnutrition in schooling …

The income contribution of child work is undoubtedly a key factor influencing child work and schooling decisions. Yet …

Drawing upon data from Ethiopia, we highlight the relationship between investments in child schooling and key factors … related to household characteristics, supply and quality of schooling, and income shocks. The unique contribution of this … study stems from our examination of the effect of adverse income shocks on gender-differentiated child schooling outcomes …

The rapid rise in schooling in developing countries in recent decades has been dramatic. However, many cross …-country regression analyses of the impact of schooling on economic growth find low and insignificant coefficients. This empirical `puzzle …` contrasts with theoretical arguments that schooling, through raising human capital, should raise income levels. This paper …

While it might be expected that schooling will depend positively on the economic returns to education (ER) in the local … labor market, in fact there is theoretical ambiguity about the sign of the schooling-ER relationship when households are …