schooling. Analysis of data from the World Bank's 1997-98 Survey of Living Conditions in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar yields the …

affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro … percentage points higher schooling probability for children between the ages of 7 and 10. This result explains approximately 26 … percent of the improvement in schooling for this age group between the years 1988 and 2000. …

children to show that father's schooling is more important than mother's schooling for children's schooling in the U.S. Recent … Swedish Twin Registry, we replicate the finding that father's schooling matters more than mother's schooling in a combined … sample of MZ and DZ twin parents. In contrast, results based on MZ twin parents show that mother's schooling matters at least …

schooling outcomes in East and West Germany. Based on data from the German Mikrozensus we find that educational mobility is …

war disruptions and spatial indicators of schooling supply as instruments. The point estimates indicate that a year of … additional schooling reduces the probability of an arranged marriage by about 14 percentage points for an individual with eight … years of schooling. We also estimate bounds on the effect of education on arranged marriage when exclusion restrictions are …

end of the compulsory schooling period. We also determine whether there are differential effects for literacy and numeracy …

We estimate changes in the productivity of schooling for six East Asian countries. Our productivity measure is based on … changes in the relative price of schooling. A rising price of schooling relative to other labor-intensive service sectors … should indicate declining relative schooling productivity. We find that the price of schooling increased by more than the …