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 …

have implications for education policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. …

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …

Journal of Economics"</A>, 112(3), 618-39.<P>The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per …. There is a systematic difference in the education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data …

relationship between agglomeration externalities and the level of education. While the positive relationship between economic … relationship between density and productivity for workers with different types of education. Apart from estimating the impact of … aggregate density, we also estimate whether the composition of the local labor market in terms of education is related to the …

> Human capital obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship performance … value of other input factors, such as (knowledge) capital and labor is likely to be affected by the education level of the … possible stakeholders in the entrepreneur’s venture. The education distribution of the (local) population may thus shape the …

We argue that promoting education may be a means to reduceincome inequality. When workers of different skill levels … areimperfect substitutes in production, an increase in the level ofhuman capital in the economy reduces the return to education … atrade-off between the distortions of taxes on effort and the distortionsof education subsidies on the investment in human …

We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We … college education cannot universally be considered an insurance against unpredictability of wages. One conclusion is …