Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …

1970 and 1975. Using the Quarterly Labour Force Survey, we find that the expansion caused men to increase education by … about a year on average and gain about 8% higher wages; women obtained a slightly greater increase in education and a … obtain instrumental variables estimates of returns to schooling of about 6% for both men and women. -- return to education …

order has a significant and large effect on children?s education; children born later in the family obtain less education …

While education levels of women have increased dramatically relative to men, women are still greatly underrepresented …

insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within … a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …

as height, IQ, earnings, and education are significant and similar in magnitude to OLS estimates. Our estimates suggest …

market experience at a given age for a given level of education; however, this becomes less important as individuals age …

variables (average age, average mother's education) have little impact on the outcomes of teenagers. …