because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility. …

period, first the post-World War baby boom and then the substantial increase in education led to higher economic growth than … otherwise expected. As the pace of increase in education slowed and the workforce aged toward the end of the period, human …

, there being more smoking men than smoking women for all education levels, so that smoking women and non-smoking men are in … education among couples with identical smoking habits. Among non-smoking wives those with smoking husbands have on average 0 ….14 fewer years of completed education than those with non-smoking husbands. Finally, and somewhat counterintuitively, we find …

substitution of low education/high experience workers by low experience/high education workers by using US and French microdata … explain the changes in returns to experience. It also accounts for a part of the increase in returns to education between 1980 …: the elasticity of substitution between experience and education, which is found to be less than half. In France, the …

We develop a simple search equilibrium model of workplace training and education based on two features. First …, investment in education improves job-related learning skills and reduces training costs burdened by firms. Second, firms with …

responses to education and find evidence for substantial heterogeneity in unobserved variables on which agents make choices. The … estimated treatment effects of education are decomposed into the direct benefits of attaining a given level of schooling and … estimated treatment effects. While the estimated causal effects of education are substantial for most outcomes, we also estimate …

operate through employment, education, and income. …