either a concept-based, general' education or a skill-specific, vocational' education. General education is more costly to … policies favor vocational education will grow slower in equilibrium than one that favors general education. Moreover, the gap … education subsidy policy we demonstrate that the optimal subsidy for general education increases with the growth rate of …

The current high rates of return to human capital stimulate a supply response via increased investments in education … differential in wages. This paper reports estimates of: the responses of investments in post-secondary education, measured by …

In this paper we evaluate the degree to which the adverse parental divorce effect on university education operates … education outcome. Non-economic mechanisms, such as psychological and mental shocks, are more likely to dominate. Our further …

associations with adult health. Net of adolescent influences, completed education has a significant association with adult health …

Although mental disorders are common among children, we know little about their long term effects on child outcomes …. This paper examines U.S. and Canadian children with symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), depression … representative samples of children from both countries. Second, we focus on "screeners" that were administered to all children in our …

order has a significant and large effect on children's education; children born later in the family obtain less education … match adult children to their parents and siblings. In addition, we use exogenous variation in family size induced by the … children's educational attainment. However, when we include indicators for birth order, the effect of family size becomes …

adulthood in worse health and with less education than wealthier children, these results indicate that a key determinant of …, educations and social status, that children who experience poor health have significantly lower educational attainment, and … effects on educational attainment and initial adult health. Taken together with earlier findings that poorer children enter …

This paper makes two contributions. First, it adds to the growing literature describing correlations between children … children in single-parent families. McLanahan and Sandefur describe their results as showing that the crucial distinction is … between children who were reared by both biological parents and children who were not. This description is misleading. This …