Many economists and educators of diverse political beliefs favor public support for education on the premise that a … between education and voting for the US, but not for the UK. Using the information on validated voting, we find that …

The expansion of U.S. universities after World War II gained from the arrival of immigrant scientists and graduate … convergence in world science and engineering and a falling U.S. share. But the slowdown of U.S. publication rates in the late 1990 …

ability to perform complex tasks. The data suggests that the sorting effect of education is an important determinant of …

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 …

democracy, the economy, the state of education and health services. They are also less happy in the moment in terms of peace and …

A long-standing issue in the literature on education is whether marginal returns to education fall as education rises … education fall as a greater fraction of the population enrolls. This paper proposes a nonparametric method of estimating … marginal treatment effects in heterogeneous populations, and applies it to this question, examining returns to higher education …

This paper presents a model of the intergenerational transmission of education and marital sorting where parents matter … impact in the UK than in the US as a result of the fertility and education transmission process. When the relative supply of …

A growing body of work suggests that education offers a wide-range of benefits that extend beyond increases in labor … market productivity. Improvements in education can lower crime, improve health, and increase voting and democratic … participation. This chapter reviews recent developments on these 'non-production' benefits of education with an emphasis on …