We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom …

can speak the same language. The value of trade increases in each participant's level of education. We compare a bilingual … education system, under which the individuals who take education become bilingual, with a unilingual system, under which the … optimal when education levels are centralized. In the decentralized equilibrium, individuals (i) vote over education systems …

, breakdowns are provided by ethnic origin, marital status, age and education level. While most of the results are both expected …

We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several …

the two separate margins of primary/secondary and tertiary education. Interestingly, the latter type of schooling proves …

This paper surveys the empirical literature on the growth effects of education and social capital. The main focus is on … clarify where empirical work on education using macro data may be relatively useful. It is argued that on balance, the recent … cross-country evidence points to productivity benefits of education that are at least as large as those identified by labour …