We analyse the effects of demographic and education changes on unemployment rates in Europe. Using a panel of European … countries for the 1980-2000 period - disaggregated by cohort, gender and education -, we empirically test the economic effects … of two stylised facts that have occurred in recent decades: the "baby bust" and the "education boom". We find that …

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 …

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 …

In this paper, we investigate the effects of the boom in education on the wage structure in Europe. We use detailed … boom in education closely matched the shifts in demand due to (skill biased) technological change, which in turn explains … why the wage premia for education only rose moderately. We use the conditional wage spread within tertiary education …

The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in … Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European … marginal return to the marginal cost of education - we speculate that either marginal costs are steeper in Italy or that a …