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

In this model of education, where individuals are exposed both to educational risk and to wage risk within the skilled … enhancing the quality of education. The necessary expenditures are optimally financed by regressive tuition fees and the net …

affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro … percentage points higher schooling probability for children between the ages of 7 and 10. This result explains approximately 26 … percent of the improvement in schooling for this age group between the years 1988 and 2000 …

The trade-off between child quantity and education is a crucial ingredient of unified growth models that explain the … instrumental-variable models that instrument education by landownership inequality and distance to Wittenberg and fertility by … previous-generation fertility and sex-imbalance ratio, we find that causation between fertility and education runs both ways …

The aim of this paper is to study whether schooling choices are affected by social interactions. Such social … eligible children tend to attend school more frequently, (ii) but also the ineligible children acquire more schooling when the …

and because the children have different access to education. Public policy is thus called for, for vertical as well as … cannot remedy this. Quantity controls become necessary: a compulsory education package, financed by a redistributive tax … system, achieves both types of equity. Redistributive taxation and compulsory education are therefore best seen as …

schooling. This effect diminishes substantially in the second half of the century. Causality of this relationship is confirmed … heterogeneity. We argue that serfdom hampered peasants’ demand for education whereas the successive emancipation triggered a demand …

economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible … evidence on which education policy reforms may be able to bring about the simulated improvements in educational outcomes. …

We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent’s schooling on child’s schooling, and … to Swedish register data, suggests that intergenerational schooling associations are largely driven by selection …. Parental schooling constitutes a large part of the parental nurture effect, but as a whole does not play a large role. …

We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern … education CCT that conditions renewal on school performance reduces teenage pregnancy; the program can increase teenage … teenage pregnancy of two education CCTs implemented in Bogotá (Subsidio Educativo, SE, and Familias en Acción, FA); both …