We study the effect of exposure to colonial public primary education on contemporary education outcomes in Tunisia. We … French protectorate (1881-1956). We match those with contemporary data on education at both district and individual level. We … find that the exposure of local population to colonial public primary education has a long-lasting effect on educational …

education at the district level, derived from two population censuses conducted in 1984 and 2014. We find that a one per cent … 1.89 percentage points increase in 2014. We further investigate the exposure to colonial public primary education across …. While we provide qualitative evidence that a cultural transmission of education may have contributed to this persistence, we …

asymmetry and sensitivity of labor force participation decisions are found across gender, age, and education groups, and these …

exist that quantify the disadvantage of immigrant children in education and there has not been any attempt to identify … institutional conditions of the education system that contribute to educational integration. Using data from five international …)integration is related to institutional characteristics of the schooling system. The study shows that early education, time in school …

insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within … a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial …

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of education and … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education …

We study the relationship between education and cognitive functioning at older ages by exploiting compulsory schooling … of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we assess the causal effect of education on old-age memory, uency …, numeracy, orientation and dementia. We find a positive impact of schooling on memory. One year of education increases the …

gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors - international migration and education - on the … education and migration have a significant association with the gender gap in labour force participation in Tajikistan … participation by men domestically; increased female education, especially at the university and vocational level, increases female …