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

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 …

, 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 …

Cities in the United States dramatically expanded spending on public education in the years following World War I, with … the first evaluation of these historically unprecedented investments in public education by compiling a new dataset that … resources significantly increased educational attainment and wages later in life, particularly for the children of unskilled …

Higher education institutions and disciplines that traditionally did little research now reward faculty largely based … this trend. We summarize, review, and extend existing economic theories of higher education to explain why incentives for … increase student human capital more than non-researchers. In contrast, according to signaling theory, education is not …