Victor Fuchs has suggested that the persistent positive correlation between education and health habits can be … for education in standard wage equations. We use whether an individual smoked at age 18 in such a fashion. The instrument … is strongly correlated with years of education, and IV estimates of the return to schooling are 10 percent larger than …

(work or education), and the permanence spell up to either the return to India or right truncation. By means of survival … migration (age, education, patenting record, migration motives, and migration cohort) as well as of some activities undertaken … while abroad (education and patenting). We find both evidence of negative self-selection with respect to educational …

Prior research has uncovered a large and positive correlation between education and health. This paper examines whether … education has a causal impact on health. I follow synthetic cohorts using successive U.S. censuses to estimate the impact of … educational attainment on mortality rates. I use compulsory education laws from 1915 to 1939 as instruments for education. The …

Income Dynamics (PSID). We find that children raised by step, adoptive or foster mothers obtain significantly less education …

greater inequality. To investigate this we construct a dynamic model of intergenerational education acquisition, fertility … fertility and education, a decreasing marginal effect of parental education on children's years of education, and wages that are …

differences in the probability of arrest or incarceration conditional on crime. We estimate that the externality of education is … about 14-26% of the private return to schooling, suggesting that a significant part of the social return to education comes …

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