We present results from the first study to examine the causal impact of early childhood education on social preferences … a series of incentivized experiments to elicit their social preferences. We find that early childhood education has a …

specifically, we analyze whether including the right to education in the constitution has been related to better "educational … estimation technique: we find that there is no evidence that including the right to education in the constitution has been … associated with higher test scores. The quality of education depends on socioeconomic, structural, and policy variables, such as …

data from Turkey and leveraging an education reform which increased mandatory schooling by three years, we find that the …

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

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 …

education and marital status though the marital effects are much weaker when we condition for prior health. These effects …

The labor force participation rates of older, working-aged black men and men with lower levels of education have … historically been significantly lower than those of white men and men with more education, respectively. This paper uses data from … characteristics can account for these differences. Our analysis suggests that race and education differences in health status of …

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 …

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 …