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 …

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

years of schooling. We also estimate bounds on the effect of education on arranged marriage when exclusion restrictions are …Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the effects of education on freedom of spouse choice. We use … war disruptions and spatial indicators of schooling supply as instruments. The point estimates indicate that a year of …

This paper develops a theoretical model of optimal schooling levels where ability and family background are the central … explanatory variables. We derive schooling demand and supply functions based on individual wealth maximization. Using NLSY79 data … on schooling and ability alone) corresponds to 13 FTE years of work experience yielding on average a rate of return of 9 …

While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and …

education on labour force participation and on unemployment can be attributed to literacy and numeracy (the indirect effect) and … about half to the direct effect of education. There is apparently no indirect effect of labour market experience through … suggest that education is a value added process in which skills, including literacy and numeracy, are improved and that these …

In the last two decades, the social and economic benefits of formal education in Sub-Saharan Africa have been debated …. Anecdotal evidence points to low returns to education in Africa. Unfortunately, there is limited econometric evidence to support … instruments based on the exogenous timing of the implementation and withdrawal of free primary education across regions in this …

Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … complementarity between language skills and both schooling and pre-immigration experience. That is, greater proficiency in the … official languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language …

children participate, focusing on that work's impact on schooling, health, as well as externalities associated with that work …, family interactions, the net return to schooling, and poverty. Section 5 discusses the limited evidence on different policy …