Mobility of highly-skilled workers affects and is affected by labor market conditions, taxes, and other policies. This …

The US experienced two dramatic changes in the structure of education in a fifty year period. The first was a large …

Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across …

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 …

care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the … period and that parents invest in the education of their children. We show that Becker's rotten kids theorem holds for the … single period game in that informal aid is set according to an efficient rule. However, education is distorted upwards. In …

data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education - but not income or urbanization - is …

uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …

This paper makes use of the regional variation in schooling legislation within the German secondary education system to …