-term health and smoking behaviour. We explore the roles that cognitive and non-cognitive skills may play in moderating these … impacts. We use data from the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS) cohort, whose secondary schooling years lay within … the transition years of a major reform that transformed secondary education in England and Wales from a selective system …

We use data from Sierra Leone where a substantial education program provided increased access to education for primary … increased educational attainment and that an increase in education has changed women's preferences. An increase in schooling …, triggered by the program, had an impact on women's attitudes towards matters that impact women's health and on attitudes …

This paper analyzes the effect of Medicaid eligibility expansions on the health insurance coverage of women giving … birth and on the use of prenatal care and infant health, controlling for year and state effects and state-specific trends … construct estimates of the effect of health insurance on use of prenatal care and infant health. We find that the eligibility …

do not seem to influence health care quality. …

Policy-makers have argued that providing public health insurance coverage to the uninsured lowers long-run costs by …

treatment evaluation in health care. …

This paper analyzes the impact of student loans for higher education on enrollment, dropout decisions, and earnings. We … SGL program increased the probability of enrollment and reduced the probability of dropping out from tertiary education … program. We attribute this negative result to the design of the SGL program, which has incentivized higher education …

One of the most wide-ranging reforms in public education in the last decade has been the reorganization of large … feedback, increased safety, and improved collaboration. The results show that school size is an important factor in education …