findings from a growing empirical literature that suggests that gender equity in education promotes economic growth and reduce … achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary education by the year 2005 in every country of the world. Based on the … fertility, child mortality, and undernutrition, we estimate what the costs in terms of growth, and forgone fertility, mortality …

, on average, women have lower education attainment than men but this educational disparity is masked among the sample of … other characteristics, tends to fully offset the gender wage gap. Not surprisingly, the returns to women's education among … women. When the analysis controls for sample selection bias and heterogeneity, the returns to women's education rise …

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 …

schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education … findings suggest that the child's probability of post compulsory education decreases when born to a teenage mother, and that …

rather than slowdowns in GPD growth, although we find a positive relationship between first births and growth. Despite that …

experience. The results point to a statistically significant positive effect of paternal U.S. migration on education for girls …

. We show that discriminating between gender, education level, experience, the public and the private sector, and … variation across education and experience groups. The average effect of training is similar in the private sector and in the … public sector. Experience in the private sector and education in the public sector are key determinants of the returns to …