This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two …, and (iv) length and effective enforcement of compulsory education. The predictions are consistent with two empirical … countries tend to get less education than boys of the same educational ability, and of why a substantial minority of women in …

This paper considers how optimal education and tax policy depends on the risk properties of human capital. It is … positive or a negative education premium. In the same model a positive intertemporal wedge is optimal. A set of generalizations …, including non-observability of education, non-observability of consumption, and temporal resolution of uncertainty, are then …

performance in pre-university education. Employing data from central exit exams, a positive link between competition intensity and …

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed … marital patterns by education for men. …

This paper studies second best policies for education, saving, and labour in an OLG model in which endogenous growth … equilibria are inefficient. The inefficiency is exacerbated if selfish individuals externalize the positive effect of education … on descendents' productivity. It is shown to be second best to subsidize education even relative to the first best if the …

work a child does, are private information, the second-best policy uses a combination of need and merit based education …