education, labor supply, and consumption/saving decisions. Altruistic parents make inter vivos transfers to their children … of funding for college education. We find that the current financial aid system in the U.S. improves welfare, and …

The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether … program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the country’s education budget. We find large positive effects on test …

contemporary incarnation of this displacement--labor market polarization, meaning the simultaneous growth of high-education, high …-wage and low-education, low-wages jobs--a manifestation of Polanyi's paradox. I discuss both the explanatory power of the …

We estimate a dynamic model of employment, human capital accumulation - including education, and savings for women in … income support programs and we account for their insurance value. We find important incentive effects on education choice and … labor supply, with single mothers having the most elastic labor supply. Returns to experience increase with education, but …

Goldin and Katz's <i>The Race between Education and Technology</i> is a monumental achievement that supplies a unified …

We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality using two additional decades of … suffers from two sources of bias and propose an IV strategy to address both. We find that the minimum wage reduces inequality …