We study the role of education during the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy. We compare the trends of mortality rates between … controlling for many confounders. We find that education played a protective role against the pandemic, significantly reducing … October and December 2020). We interpret this finding as the outcome of the interplay between education and the quality of …

the household or the outcomes of these investments. Results using data from Colombia suggest that family size has negative … effects on average child quality. Children from larger families have accumulated almost 1 year less of education, are less …

This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent …

. First, we show that children living in municipality with high conflict have a gap in education enrollment and accumulation …Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict has made Colombia home to the world's second largest population of … enrollment is of particular concern because of the critical role that education plays in increasing human capital and …

collected one and six years after the earthquake. Colombia provides a unique setting for our study because the government …

This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia, Familias en Acción (FA …

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 …

This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries …, based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). After confirming the standard result that training incidence is … higher among individuals with more education, I find that the relationship between educational attainment and training …

market. At the same time, education is a time-consuming process, and enrolment and dropout decisions depend on expected … in finding a job. Standard models of job search and education assume that skills can be upgraded instantaneously (and … mostly in the form of on-the-job training) at a fixed cost. This paper models education as a time-consuming process, a …