Can we nudge children, adolescents and their parents to make better decisions on education? And can we nudge teachers … to support and encourage better decision making? Education decisions are taken at young ages and involve immediate costs …

This paper surveys the trends in gender gaps in education, their causes and potential policy implications. I show that … tertiary education students and graduates. Existing evidence suggests that this pattern is a result of a combination of … increasing returns to education and lower female effort costs of education. Widening gender gap in education combined with recent …

the child's higher education operates through deprivation of economic resources. Using one million siblings, we find that …

This review describes the research frontier on human capital and education in economics research. It delineates what is … aims. First, it draws out the implications for key education policy issues, highlighting which policy ideas can be …

surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …

Formal education is correlated with entrepreneurial activity and success, but correlation does not indicate causation …. Education and entrepreneurship are both influenced by other related factors. The current study estimates causal effects of … formal education on entrepreneurship outcomes by instrumenting for an individual's years of schooling using cohort mean years …

reform losers were those in construction and agriculture, those who attained only primary or vocational education (who … actually experience a decrease in the returns to their education) as well as those younger workers which acquired most of their … education after the collapse of communism (that is, after the main reforms were in place) …

of language proficiency on over-education, particularly, whether individuals with deficient language skills tend to … controls for individuals' socio-demographic characteristics reveals the opposite: better language knowledge decreases over-education …