quality on educational attainment and returns to education has been particularly significant for the individuals born in … negative on school returns. Better school quality has also had asymmetric effects on the returns to education, positive for … education. Our evidence suggests that better school quality, measured by a lower pupil-teacher ratio, is a technical substitute …

-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on education outcomes at different points in time, namely in 1917 and in the … 1950s. Finally, we turn to the determinants of a broad array of development indicators for the year 1960 and for the 1960 …-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …

initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …

that periods of high unemployment and joblessness could hinder the development of democracy or threaten its existence. …

path. Hence, we examine the effectiveness of different development policies to exit the poverty trap. Our numerical … experiments show that using means-tested education subsidies is the most cost-effective single policy option. However, for longer … time horizons, or as the economy gets closer to the poverty trap threshold, combining means-tested education and wage …

Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the effects of education on freedom of spouse choice. We use … years of schooling. We also estimate bounds on the effect of education on arranged marriage when exclusion restrictions are … violated locally (the lower bound is six to seven percentage points). The impact of education is strong for women, but …