achievements are wasted as children fail to build upon their parents’ achievements. Policies affecting the education system and the …

: can we increase number of inventors? To answer this question, we study the causal effect of M.Sc. engineering education on …. We find a positive effect of engineering education on the propensity to patent, and a negative OLS bias. Our …

’s future income proportionally at all levels of education, leaving the relative return between quality and quantity unaffected …. This result is consistent with historical evidence that longevity began to increase long before education did. Our theory … also casts doubts on recent findings about a positive effect of health on education. This is because health raises the …

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …

the equilibrium sorting of spouses by skill type (their correlation in education) is increasing as a function of the skill … premium and of the degree of correlation of spouses’ education (marital sorting). For all our measures, we find a positive and …

particular, they find no impact of life expectancy increases on education. We argue that their pessimistic results with respect … the impact of life expectancy improvements on the average education of the whole population aged above 15, which evolves … much slower. We have reproduced their estimations with a cohort-based measure of education and find a positive and …

propensity to turn one additional year of life expectancy into higher education is lower in poor countries than in the rich. The …

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return to education) have been hard to reconcile with micro … human capital is negatively related to its return, and a higher education level compresses wage differentials. We use cross … that the private return falls by 1.5 percentage points when the average education level increases by a year, which is …