This paper uses newly available Chinese micro data to estimate the return to college education for late 20th century … return to education has increased substantially in China, compared to the returns measured in the 1980’s and the early 1990’s. …

to remedy. We also show that cognitive ability is not the only determinant of education, labor market outcomes and …

. Adjusting the scores for racial/ethnic differences in education at the time the test is taken reduces their role in accounting … for the wage gaps. We also consider evidence on parental and child expectations about education and on stereotype …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial …

In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical … approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this … approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12 European countries and has information on education, health and health …

responses to education and find evidence for substantial heterogeneity in unobserved variables on which agents make choices. The … estimated treatment effects of education are decomposed into the direct benefits of attaining a given level of schooling and … estimated treatment effects. While the estimated causal effects of education are substantial for most outcomes, we also estimate …

We study the relationship between education and cognitive functioning at older ages by exploiting compulsory schooling … of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we assess the causal effect of education on old-age memory, fluency …, numeracy, orientation and dementia. We find a positive impact of schooling on memory. One year of education increases the …

education characteristic of the pre-reform era has given rise to substantial inequality in access to higher levels of education …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …

insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within … a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …