education, health, and participation rates between population subgroups can have on increasing the U.S. labor force. Our …

's degree than those with less education, for prime-age workers than older workers, and also for those who already worked long …

, employment, wages, and access to transportation and credit in adulthood, using household fixed effects models to control for …

-adjusted educational attainment among the working age population based on their health status during the time they did their education …

education and marital status though the marital effects are much weaker when we condition for prior health. These effects …

It can be claimed that education is simply a normal consumption good and that like all other normal goods, an increase …

institutional structure to attitudes such as trust, individualism, and nepotism. Using data from Turkey and leveraging an education …

Higher education institutions and disciplines that traditionally did little research now reward faculty largely based … this trend. We summarize, review, and extend existing economic theories of higher education to explain why incentives for … increase student human capital more than non-researchers. In contrast, according to signaling theory, education is not …

We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital Statistics Natality files for … 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential channels through which maternal education may improve birth … education on changes in birth outcomes. Second, we have compiled a new data set on openings of two and four year colleges …