I explore the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Examples of … outcomes considered include general consumption patterns at a moment in time, savings and the rate of growth of consumption …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. I pay a good deal of attention to the effects of education on health …

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 …

of cross-national growth have done little to clarify the dimensions of relevant human capital or any implications for … have a strong and robust influence on growth. One standard deviation in measured cognitive skills translates into one … percent difference in average annual real growth ratesþan effect much stronger than changes in average years of schooling, the …

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 … risk-reducing effect of the NREGS may offset adverse effects on child education that were evident during the NREGS phase …

surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …