the main variables used, a report of results and tests, and discussion of the links among social capital, education …

The paper studies a typical state-level education finance equalization scheme, and considers two questions. First, what … fraction of state education aid is spent on schools? And second, does increased educational funding for historically low … that 50 to 75 cents of each dollar of education aid were spent on schools. Estimates also suggest that increased spending …

In the United States, religious attendance rises sharply with education across individuals, but religious attendance … declines sharply with education across denominations. This puzzle is explained if education both increases the returns to … social connection and reduces the extent of religious belief. The positive effect of education on sociability explains the …

This paper presents a model of the intergenerational transmission of education and marital sorting where parents matter … impact in the UK than in the US as a result of the fertility and education transmission process. When the relative supply of …

use easily observable characteristics such as years of education to 'statistically discriminate' among workers. The pure … credential value of education will depend on how quickly firms learn. To obtain information on employer learning, we work with a … education. The time path of the coefficient on the unobservable productivity variable provides information about the rate at …

observe gender imbalances in labor markets: men are more competitively inclined than women. Whether, and to what extent, such … attenuate the gender differences, including whether the job is performed in teams, whether the job task is female-oriented, and …

analysis considers various experimental treatments and finds that the existence of gender differences depends crucially on the …

panel data from three rather different educational institutions, and use them to examine the relationship between the gender … composition of the students in an academic department and the gender composition of its faculty at the time the students were …