Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …

geography, education, calendar year, and mothers’ labor force participation lead to lower extrapolation error. As experimental …

environmental regulation taking the shape of standards or taxes. Moreover, the paper shows that environmental externalities and … externalities related to social norms interact and that an optimal environmental policy should consider both types of externalities …

We investigate externalities in higher education enrollment over the course of development in a two-sector model. Each … acquiring human capital. Both sectors exhibit productivity externalities in the size of the skill-specific labor and in the … stages of development witness under enrollment in higher education, while highly developed economies experience over …

RFS on world food prices and their impact on household level consumption and wage incomes in India. We first develop a … losses are greater among urban households. However, more poor people in India live in villages, so rural poverty impacts are …

outcomes in middle school grades in urban India, using a lottery that provided students with a voucher to cover program costs …-aided instruction programs can sharply improve productivity in delivering education …

Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …