We study how two distinct dimensions of peer ethnic diversity (ethnic fractionalization and ethnic polarization) affect … people-oriented occupations while ethnic polarization reduces this likelihood. Using data on social and cognitive skills, we …

The trade-off between child quantity and education is a crucial ingredient of unified growth models that explain the … instrumental-variable models that instrument education by landownership inequality and distance to Wittenberg and fertility by … previous-generation fertility and sex-imbalance ratio, we find that causation between fertility and education runs both ways …

The trade-off between child quantity and education is a crucial ingredient of unified growth models that explain the … instrumental-variable models that instrument education by landownership inequality and distance to Wittenberg and fertility by … previous-generation fertility and sex-imbalance ratio, we find that causation between fertility and education runs both ways …

Protestant economic history of Becker and Woessmann (2009), where Protestantism first led to better education, which in turn … explanation, where a Protestant work ethic first led to industrialization which then increased the demand for education …. -- education ; Protestantism ; pre-industrialization …

. -- Education finance ; education administration ; school closures ; tax policy …

Less than a decade ago, several German states introduced tuition fees for university education. Despite their …