Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality – ranging from zero to large … mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we …

This paper estimates the causal effect of parental education on children’s education in 13 European countries, using … representative data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). A novel instrumental variable approach is … parental birth order as instrument in the intergenerational mobility literature. We find that parental education has a positive …

Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality – ranging from zero to large … mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we …

perception of the state of the education system and of health services, by using the 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008 waves of the … effect of fiscal decentralization on the perception of the state of the health and education system is unambiguously positive …, political decentralization affects citizen’s satisfaction with education and health delivery in different ways. The influence of …

determinants of inequality in workers’ formal life-long learning (LLL) in Europe. In particular we investigate the incidence of … relevant results emerge for Scandinavian countries with regard to the complementarity between past level of education and … inequality in human capital, as it results from education levels. Denmark is the only country where, for women, being less …