century was characterized by low investments in height and education, a small correlation between height and education, and … positive but small returns for both height and education. The relationship between height and education was stronger in the … twentieth century and stronger in the first part of the twentieth century than later on (when both investments in education and …

, and the relative pay of teachers -- on the rate of return to education for men born between 1920 and 1949. Using earnings … education in the region where they currently reside, and other factors. A decrease in the pupil-teacher ratio from 30 to 25, for … example, is associated with a 0.4 percentage point increase in the rate of return to education. The estimated relationship …

We investigate short and long-term effects of early childhood education using variation created by a unique policy …

I explore the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Examples of …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. I pay a good deal of attention to the effects of education on health … education has productive efficiency and allocative efficiency effects. I then modify these frameworks to allow for the …

years immediately after birth. This study analyzes whether the across-cohort patterns in the black-white education and …-of-test taking.With Census data, we find: i) a significant narrowing across the same cohorts in education gaps driven primarily by a … gains is greater than can be explained by only the black gains in education and test scores for reasonable estimates of the …