compulsory schooling increased from 5 to 8 years in 1997. This increase was accompanied by a massive construction of classrooms … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … completion of 8 years or more of schooling by about 7.1 percentage points. We use this exogenous increase in the educational …

(CEL) of 1997, and the differentiation in its implementation across regions, as instruments for schooling of young mothers … in Turkey. The CEL increased the compulsory years of schooling of those born after 1986 from 5 to 8 years. We find that … education of mothers increases the probability of completing the full course of DPT and Hepatitis B vaccinations for their …

explain the underinvestment of parents in their children's human capital. We first incorporate these two potential mechanisms …

Ample empirical evidence has found that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers' labor force … participation and employment. In this paper, we investigate whether increased childcare for primary school children improves the … quality of jobs mothers find by estimating the causal effect of a school schedule reform in Chile. Combining plausibly …

this paper is that if there are low chances of obtaining professional (requires tertiary schooling) jobs in the host … that schooling. The theory developed here explains the forsaken schooling phenomenon, which shows that low-skilled and … professional schooling in the home country since it is not optimal for the worker in the home country to choose a high skilled …

strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving their children's' achievement on these tests, thus reinforcing … investing in their children's test-taking abilities and improving their access to selective tertiary programs; and employers not …

largely explained by the extra costs of schooling for migrant households. Finally, we show that the parents of rural children … absent for children of preschool age. We also find that (1) boys are more likely to migrate following the reduction in the … number of rural primary schools, (2) migrant households with multiple children tend to take their sons to migrate more than …

return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage …) estimates internal rates of return from high school and college/university schooling, primarily for native-born white men, but … also for other demographic groups. The first regression-based approach is the development of the schooling …