We examine the role of universities in knowledge production and industrial change using historical evidence. Political … shocks led to a profound pro-science shift in German universities around 1800. To study the consequences, we construct novel … microdata. We find that invention and manufacturing developed similarly in cities closer to and farther from universities in the …

the introduction of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980 in the US. The Act allowed universities to retain patent rights over … effectiveness of IPR as a vehicle of technology transfer from universities. We also discuss the limited evidence on Bayh-Dole type …

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 …