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. …

This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with … education on health. Higher educational levels are found to be positively related to self-reported health but negatively related …

-secondary education, and coop, school enterprise, and internship/apprenticeship programs boost employment and decrease idleness after …

aid has been increased attention to sorting in various aspects of life, especially in education. This paper examines the … extent to which merit-based aid exacerbates or ameliorates sorting by ability in higher education. We use panel data from … Peterson’s Guide to Colleges and the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) to evaluate this relationship. Our …

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. …

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …

It is difficult to know whether widening access to schools which provide a more academically oriented general education …