Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted …

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality … education are still substantial, and amount to a 4 years gain in life expectancy, on average. …

Large differences in mortality rates across those with different levels of education are a well- established fact. This … association between mortality and education may partly be explained by confounding factors, including cognitive ability. Cognitive … ability may also be affected by education so that it becomes a mediating factor in the causal chain. In this paper we estimate …

Tracking is widespread in U.S. education. In post-secondary education alone, at least 71% of colleges use a test to …

Tracking is widespread in U.S. education. In post-secondary education alone, at least 71% of colleges use a test to …

multistate hazard model (a 'Timing-of-events'- model) and, for selection into education, by using inverse propensity weighting … based on the probability to attain higher education. We use Swedish Military Conscription Data (1951-1960), for males only …

Cross-country studies reveal two consistent gender gaps in education - underachievement in school by boys and low rates …

We examine the differential effects of family disadvantage on the education and adult labor market outcomes of men and … parental education and family structure during childhood to male-female and brother-sister differences in teenage outcomes … from an advantageous family environment than do girls in terms of the behavior and grade-school outcomes. Father …