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 …

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 …

(ECD), and estimate the impact of mothers' exposure to education reform using RDD. Our analysis reveals a significant …

find that treated women increase their education by 8-10 months and premarital use of the pill by sixteen percentage points …

one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit … the introduction of short school years in Germany in 1966-67, which compressed the education phase without affecting the … the birth of the first child mainly for academic-track graduates. This highlights that education policies might not only …