colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …

ability, and the choice of education is determined endogenously. Job opportunities in an informal sector are available only to … workers who choose not to acquire higher education. We find that increased punishment of informal activities increases the …

new education policy reduces the probability of marriage and giving birth for teenage women substantially: the probability … effects of the education policy on the time until marriage and firstbirth persist beyond the completion of compulsory …-birth. Finally, we find that the education policy was more effective in reducing early marriage than a change in the Civil Code aimed …

We study Pareto optimal tax and education policies when human capital upon labor market entry is endogenous and … individuals face wage uncertainty. Though optimal labor distortions are history-dependent, i.e. depend on income and education …-contingent loans. To take themodel to the (US) data, we simplify the model to a binary education decision (graduating from college or …

diploma, all with respect to parenthood. Few get children while enrolled in higher education, nevertheless one fourth of …

Justification for policies to encourage investments in education, particularly for individuals at the lower end of the … potentially loss averse around their expected outcome make risky investments in education and we draw on optimal tax theory to … preferences, standard risk aversion and labour supply behaviour, (ii) the risk properties of education, and (iii) the degree of …