new education policy reduces the probability of marriage and giving birth for teenage women substantially: the probability … effects of the education policy on the time until marriage and firstbirth persist beyond the completion of compulsory …-birth. Finally, we find that the education policy was more effective in reducing early marriage than a change in the Civil Code aimed …

This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals …, the empirical analysis uses World Values Surveys to study the link between education and democratic attitudes. Controlling … for a variety of characteristics, the paper finds that higher education levels tend to result in prodemocracy views. These …

Residents in rural China doubt the benefits from education, yet there is empirical evidence supporting positive effects … in urban and rural areas. This paper investigates whether education affects a variety of income attainment indicators for … households in rural China, using a household survey from the provinces of Hebei and Liaoning. The analysis estimates education …

This paper estimates the impact of school quality on the transition to higher education examination (abbreviated as YGS … same cohort, we find that student quality explains the transition to higher education examination outcomes to a large …

This paper provides an empirical investigation of externalities from education in Sweden in an earnings equation … education are identified from the average educational attainment of workers outside the individual’s establishment. The paper … significant external effects of education on earnings in Sweden. …

This paper estimates the effect of a major education reform on the intergenerational income mobility in Finland. The …-year comprehensive school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We …