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 …

welfare: vocational education and training. The results indicate that welfare reform reduced enrollment in full …-time vocational education and had no significant effects on part-time vocational education or participation in other types of work …. We find no evidence that the previously-observed negative effects of welfare reform on formal education (including …

experience by gender in the two countries; and the possible implications for skill development in Britain of dismantling …

the potential positive benefits of such programs to children. Initially, this research on benefits to children focused on … long-run benefits to children are considered, many safety net programs are cost-effective. However, the current government … the US is still higher than most OECD countries and how research on children and the safety net can better inform policy …

instruction for children younger than the standard eligibility age for public education. I describe how ECE programs can be …This chapter concerns the state of the literature on early childhood education (ECE) - formal programs offering group …

Lead poisoning has well-known impacts for the developing brain of young children, with a large literature documenting … study, we use Michigan's universe of longitudinal, student-level education records, combined with home water service line … outcomes of Flint public school children. We leverage parallel causal identification strategies, a between-district synthetic …

States. We study the fiscal cost of three such proposals that would expand refundability of the credit to low-income children … revenue due to changes in children's future earnings. We find that direct costs are by far the most important component but …