-linked externalities (JLEs). JLEs emerge when wages exceed the opportunity cost of labor (labor externalities), or when there are social … gains from creating better jobs for some classes of worker, such as women or youth (social externalities). Like all … externalities, JLEs create a gap between private and social rates of return. Investments can be socially profitable (once the …

We propose a model of intergenerational transmission of education wherein children belong to either highly educated or … interactions with other low-educated students (i.e., homophily), which reduces the education effort of their parents and, thus … kids from different education backgrounds can be effective in reducing the education gap between them. …

by the reform significantly increased their education and experienced higher labor income. Our main result is that the …. These results are not driven by the direct impact of education and are not explained by higher turnout, or greater attention …

available. In this paper, we use nationally representative cohort data linked to administrative education records to study the …