threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual …

It is generally argued that, in the context of Imperial Germany, public primary education was used to form “loyal … citizens” and to build a nation. In this paper we analyze to what extent central spending on primary education affected … category of expenditure are consistent with the role of indoctrination of public primary education. …

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

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 …

despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … working poor in acquiring education. From a field study conducted in Bangladesh, this paper provides invaluable insights for … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …