A major benefit of education is the lower risk of unemployment at higher educational levels. In PSID (Panel Study of …

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 …

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 …

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …

explained by the positive association between height and both income and education, both of which are positively linked to …

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

In this article we review the literature on financial literacy, financial education, and consumer financial outcomes … addresses whether financial education improves financial literacy or personal financial outcomes. We discuss the extent to which … on the efficacy and cost of financial education. Finally, we discuss directions for future research …

have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However …