scarce, parental investments in their children's education may not be driven entirely by poverty and credit constraints. We … offer evidence that children's participation in child labor and schooling responds to economic returns to education in India …, which suggests implementing policies that raise the economic benefits of education - such as creating more high-skilled jobs …

have positive impacts on young women's wages. We find evidence of ability sorting, but controlling for ability, women who … attend higher quality colleges earn higher wages. Women receive smaller gains from college quality than do men; black women … earn more than those who attend public colleges, and women earn lower wages, the higher the proportion of their college …

have substantial positive impacts on young men's wages. This finding is robust to a wide array of alternative …

This paper examines the channels through which education affects household earnings in environments where wages are … identification of unobserved wages. Results indicate that education affects earnings disproportionately more than hours, implying … unobserved. Utilizing data from rural Peru, the empirical strategy decomposes the earnings returns to education into various wage …

The returns to education remain a central concern for development policy. In developed countries there is evidence that … the returns to education have been rising.Evidence for changes over this period for developing countries is limited. In … this paper we use data from Kenya and Tanzania to estimate returns to education for manufacturing workers and examine how …

talented young people still hesitate to attend college. This puzzle motivates this paper to test for whether college education … earnings risk from transitory earnings risks. Evidence indicates that investing in a four-year college education is indeed …

the past two decades, the return to college education has increased relative to high school education leading economists … negative relationship between returns to education and savings rates across most of the past century and also a negative … relationship between education spending and savings rates across OECD countries. In this paper, we present a model where a …

not the employment outcomes of those refugees who received financial grants to enable them attend their education … employment than education/ social science and health studies. …