income and education of parents, have strong effects on student performance. The findings also" indicate that more school …

This paper examines the relative benefits of general education and vocational training in Romania, a country which … vocational training to general education while keeping average years of schooling unchanged. Using data from the 1992 and 2002 …

treatment effects in education. To begin, we present a simple model of student learning that incorporates permanent as well as … measurable education input - can be recovered via instrumental variables as a particular local average treatment effect. We …

For whom and under what conditions do incentives work in education? In the context of a summer reading program called …

demand for and return to high school and post-secondary education by field of study. We combine elements from several papers … to provide a dynamic model of education and occupation choice that stresses the roles of specificity of human capital and … uncertainty about preferences, ability, education outcomes, and labor market returns. The model implies an important distinction …

We estimate a dynamic model of employment, human capital accumulation - including education, and savings for women in … income support programs and we account for their insurance value. We find important incentive effects on education choice and … labor supply, with single mothers having the most elastic labor supply. Returns to experience increase with education, but …