, President Hugo Chávez implemented several education reforms. We focus on a major university education reform known as Mission … Sucre and its potential impact on returns to university education. First, we show that returns to education decreased … a 2.7 percentage point decline in returns to university education for non-Mission Sucre students in the 23–28 age cohort. …

education to assess the potential for skill imbalances to emerge. Based on our formal projections, we see little likelihood of …

emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate … sensitive children from detailed Danish register data: children with divorced parents, children with parents convicted of crime …, and children with a psychiatric diagnosis. We find that adding potentially disruptive children lowers the academic …

This paper shows mutually consistent evidence to support female advantage in education and disadvantage in labor … level of schooling investments in daughters. Because wage penalty to females in labor markets means that education is … relatively important as a determinant of their earnings, parental investments in their daughters’ education has larger impacts on …

The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In … the 95% posterior interval for the effect of education on income. Thus, a violation of the strict validity assumption does …

welfare: vocational education and training. The results suggest that welfare reform reduced enrollment in full-time vocational … education and had no significant effects on part-time vocational education or participation in other types of work … education (including college enrollment), which we replicated in this study, have been offset by increases in vocational …

While there is an extensive literature on intergenerational transmission of economic outcomes (education, health and …