Turkey, which is a predominantly Muslim country, enacted an education law in 1997 which increased the compulsory … secular education from five to eight years. We employ a unique nation-wide survey of adults in 2012 to investigate the impact … of education on religiosity, lifestyles and political preferences by using exposure to the law as an instrument for …

Although the impact of education on health is important for economic policy in developing countries, the overwhelming … majority of research to identify the health returns to education has been done using data from developed countries. We use data … education reform that increased the mandatory years of schooling from 5 to 8 years in 1997. Using exposure to the reform as an …

conditional on school attendance but explicitly labeled as an education support program. We document large gains in school … education was a worthwhile investment, a likely pathway for the results …

In 2011, the U.S. Department of Education granted states the opportunity to apply for waivers from the core …

The U.S. economy has recently experienced two, seemingly unrelated, phenomena: a large increase in post-retirement life … rely on financial intermediaries to save for post-retirement consumption. When expecting to live longer, they rely more …

Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the … methodology to study retirement behavior used in the second phase to focus in particular on the effects of the DI programs. The …