researchers make higher education more costly for low-ability students than do non-research faculty, achieving the separation more …Higher education institutions and disciplines that traditionally did little research now reward faculty largely based … harms students' human capital accumulation. The economics literature has largely ignored the reasons for and desirability of …

This paper studies to what extent the transfer of US managerial technologies to Europe after World War II contributed …

enrollment qualifications, and graduate earnings. We find for both that disadvantaged students match to lower quality degrees …

Government backed income contingent student loans are an increasingly being used to fund higher education. An income …

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 …

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

worse than the rest of Europe. Deaths from chronic liver disease and lung cancer are particularly prevalent in Scotland. The …

much less, in (continental) Europe over the same time period. I review the two most popular explanations for these … differential trends: that relative supply of skills increased faster in Europe, and that European labor market institutions … where labor market institutions creating wage compression in Europe also encourage more investment in technologies …