We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital Statistics Natality files for … 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential channels through which maternal education may improve birth … education on changes in birth outcomes. Second, we have compiled a new data set on openings of two and four year colleges …

1970 -- the income gap between the US and the sending country, the education gap between the US and the sending country …, the poverty trap, the size of the cohort at risk, and migrant stock dynamics. It then projects the life cycle up to 2024 …

This paper explores how the wage and career consequences of motherhood differ by skill and timing. Past work has often …

find that the effects are concentrated among advantaged households, as measured by an index involving education, race, and …

education; less educated mothers appear to reinforce differences in non-cognitive skills between their children, while more …

In 2010, the Ministry of Education in Trinidad and Tobago converted 20 low-performing secondary schools from …