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 …

market. At the same time, education is a time-consuming process, and enrolment and dropout decisions depend on expected … in finding a job. Standard models of job search and education assume that skills can be upgraded instantaneously (and … mostly in the form of on-the-job training) at a fixed cost. This paper models education as a time-consuming process, a …

public goods. We examine how health insurance coverage affects the education of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD … little change in ASD identification, the mandate crowds-out special education supports for students with ASD by shifting …

on education. Afterwards, I analyze how prioritarians would allocate resources in a dynamic model of skill formation and …

industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the …-industrial development, we use pre-industrial education as an instrument to identify variation in later education that is exogenous to …

We propose a quantitative framework for the analysis of industrialization in which specialization in manufacturing or …

The industrialization process of a country is often plagued by a failure to coordinate investment decisions. Using the …

Prussia's period of rapid industrialization. Contrary to the predominant view that the franchise system produced a …