This article analyzes the negative side of involuntary integration in public education - its effect on whites. The … model shows that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private … prosperous parents multicultural integration in public education decreases their children's human capital levels. The analysis …

This article analyzes the negative side of involuntary integration in public education – its effect on whites. The … model shows that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private … prosperous parents multicultural integration in public education decreases their children’s human capital levels. The analysis …

Much of the debate over the allocation of education resources focuses on the alleged benefits of smallness—of classroom …

We develop a matching model on the marriage market, where individuals have preferences over the smoking status of …, there being more smoking men than smoking women for all education levels, so that smoking women and non-smoking men are in … education among couples with identical smoking habits. Among non-smoking wives those with smoking husbands have on average 0 …

East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates … on human capital. The prevalence of consanguineous marriage and the resultant kinship networks can shape various … data from Turkey and leveraging an education reform which increased mandatory schooling by three years, we find that the …

We investigate assortative mating on education using a sample of couples from the Health and Retirement Study. We … estimate a reduced-form linear matching function, which links wife's education to husband's education and both wife's and … husband's unobservable characteristics. Using OLS we find that an additional year in husband's education is associated with an …