The total return to higher education is the rate of return based on earnings plus non-monetary private and social … benefits beyond earnings that captures higher education's contribution to development.A theory of endogenous development offers … a new scholarly contribution where firm and household production with education externalities and the endogeneity of new …

This paper studies the impact of exam luck on individuals’ education and labor market success. We leverage unique … features of the Norwegian education system that produce random variation in the content of the exams taken by students at the … those generated by well-known education inputs, such as parental education and teacher quality. …

regression discontinuity design, we show that marginally eligible students forego vocational education in favor of universities …

resources received by schools from a targeted voucher program implemented in Chile. We merge this dataset with education and … labor market administrative records for the universe of students enrolled in the Chilean education system. We find that an … that the positive effect of voucher spending only holds for private voucher schools that operate in local education markets …

resources received by schools from a targeted voucher program implemented in Chile. We merge this dataset with education and … labor market administrative records for the universe of students enrolled in the Chilean education system. We find that an … that the positive effect of voucher spending only holds for private voucher schools that operate in local education markets …

Education Finance by exploring how the external social benefits of higher education contribute to higher sustainable rates of … the major role of education, and of higher education and its relation to new ideas, as well as of education finance both … intuitively and using a formal model. Empirical estimates of social externalities specific to higher education are summarized. The …

investments in public education can generate long-term improvements in economic well-being. …

public investments in education received by these adults during their schooling. This paper confirms existing evidence that … in primary education is associated with higher numeracy scores for those who went on to continue their education. Higher … investments in tertiary education are needed in order to fully realize the benefit of the investments in primary school. Family …

, still graduate from college but with much lower returns to education. Highincome applicants who just miss the cutoff … affordable higher education in promoting social mobility. …