, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …

development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …

liberalization. Comparing trade and education policy, we find that targeted education subsidies are more effective than tariffs as a …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zone" where wages increase with … their bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than … always reduces employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase …

This paper studies oligopolistic competition in education markets when schools can be private and public and when the … quality of education depends on peer group effects. In the first stage of our game schools set their quality and in the second … as regulatory tool in an otherwise private education sector. …

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education (i.e. the … effect of entering secondary school as opposed to leaving school after primary education) is positive and amounts to a 4 …