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 …

Familienfreundlichkeit der Arbeitswelt viel stärker betont, Bildung endlich zum Top-Thema macht, die Lebensarbeitszeit fair verlängert und … je ein hohes Maß an Eigenverantwortlichkeit des Einzelnen in Bildung, Ausbildung und Beruf und die Bereitschaft, sich …

vor: (1) Bildungsreform: Das Bildungssystem muss der Bedeutung frühkindlicher Bildung stärker Rechnung tragen als bisher …

education and personality traits. I identify a previously undocumented interaction between education and traits in earnings … generation, which results in important heterogeneity of the net present value of education. Personality traits directly affect …, education and personality skills do not always raise the family earnings of women in this cohort, as women with very high …

discrete choice models. We construct and estimate a simplified dynamic structural model of education that captures some basic …