Turkey, which is a predominantly Muslim country, enacted an education law in 1997 which increased the compulsory … secular education from five to eight years. We employ a unique nation-wide survey of adults in 2012 to investigate the impact … of education on religiosity, lifestyles and political preferences by using exposure to the law as an instrument for …

We use data from Sierra Leone where a substantial education program provided increased access to education for primary … increased educational attainment and that an increase in education has changed women's preferences. An increase in schooling … regarding violence against women. An increase in education has also reduced the number of desired children by women and …

newborns of high-skill mothers (those with at least some college education). Variations in earnings have no impact on birth …

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 …

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

This paper investigates the impact of unskilled workers' earnings on crime. Following the literature on wage inequality …

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 …