percent difference in average annual real growth ratesþan effect much stronger than changes in average years of schooling, the …

I explore the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Examples of …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. I pay a good deal of attention to the effects of education on health … education has productive efficiency and allocative efficiency effects. I then modify these frameworks to allow for the …

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …

We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital Statistics Natality files for … 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential channels through which maternal education may improve birth … education on changes in birth outcomes. Second, we have compiled a new data set on openings of two and four year colleges …

A major benefit of education is the lower risk of unemployment at higher educational levels. In PSID (Panel Study of …

response of schooling to risk. We develop a model that incorporates, dynamic complementarity in the education production … between risk and schooling investment in a low income setting. In contrast to previous literature, we explore the ex ante … the household. We test the model using data from rural India, focusing particularly on the schooling of girls. We find …

surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education … on pro-climate outcomes using new compulsory schooling law data across 16 European countries. We analyze effects on pro … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …

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 …

education. We use an overlapping-generations model to investigate the effect of this demographic transition on the endogenous … determination of public spending for education. A demographic transition alters the identity of the median voter, leading to a … preference for less education spending. If the public sector is inefficiently small, demographic transition exacerbates the …