We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a … reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate … the effects of prolonged parental leave on children's test scores and grades at age 16. We show that, on average, the …

education on health behavior is the same between those with and without a learning disability, suggesting that cognition is not …Using data from NLSY97 we analyze the impact of education on health behavior. Controlling for health knowledge does not … influence the impact of education on health behavior, supporting the productive efficiency hypothesis. Accounting for cognitive …

A number of studies have shown that education reforms extending compulsory schooling reduce criminal behavior of those …. We then show that the benefits extended to the next generation with large reductions in the crime rates of the children …

years immediately after birth. This study analyzes whether the across-cohort patterns in the black-white education and …-of-test taking. With Census data, we find: i) a significant narrowing across the same cohorts in education gaps driven primarily by a … gains is greater than can be explained by only the black gains in education and test scores for reasonable estimates of the …

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 …

The economic returns to education in transition countries have been extensively evaluated in the literature. The … present study contributes to this literature by estimating the returns to education in Georgia during the last transition … period 2000-04. We find very low returns to education in Georgia and little evidence of an increasing trend in the returns …

Recent empirical work questions the negative relationship between family size and children’s attainments proposed by …

school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We estimate the … the scores of students from families where parents had only basic education. …

In 1980, seven out of the seventeen Spanish regions were devolved education spending responsibility. Using a difference …