through their various impacts on changes in production prices and wages. In a first stage, the estimation of a regression … average of industrial prices from other industries, and by indicators of country wages weighted by industry labour shares for …

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 …

adulthood in worse health and with less education than wealthier children, these results indicate that a key determinant of …We quantify the lasting effects of childhood health and economic circumstances on adult health and earnings, using data …, educations and social status, that children who experience poor health have significantly lower educational attainment, and …

education and marital status though the marital effects are much weaker when we condition for prior health. These effects … health conditioned on prior health as well as the more usual unconditioned estimates. We find that health is related to … in the state of poor health rather than dying …

-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. I pay a good deal of attention to the effects of education on health …I explore the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Examples of … over time, own (adult) health and inputs into the production of own health, fertility, and child quality or well …

physiology. There is growing evidence from both micro and macro studies of causal impacts of extreme temperature on health, labor …

, 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 …

This paper uses a new survey to contrast the wages of genetically identical twins with different schooling levels … schooling increases wages by 16%, a higher estimate of the economic returns to schooling than has been previously found …

education and on success in the labor market. I use the large variation in curriculum across US high schools to identify the … effects on wages and educational attainment of specific courses of study. The main finding is that the return to additional …