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 …

Despite being central to government education policy in many countries, there remains considerable debate about whether … resources matter for pupil outcomes. In this paper we look at this question by considering an English education policy …

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 …

The need for education to help every child rather than focus on average attainment has become a more central part of … combined direct and indirect (spillover) effects. Thus, the analysis suggests that a key way that English education purports to …

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 …

We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based … be due to differences in levels of education in the respective regions. …