for women. Moreover, we provide somewhat weaker evidence of a causal effect of education on the likelihood of having … weight problems for both sexes. On the other hand, we find little evidence for a causal effect of education on smoking … behavior. Overall, our estimates suggest significant non-monetary returns to education with respect to health outcomes and not …

Determining the optimal age at which a child should enter school is a controversial topic in education policy. In …

secondary education. To investigate the importance of such revisions, we use administrative data on the student population in … different cohorts and grades up to the end of secondary education. We show that the effect of original school entry age on a …

Using arguably exogenous variation in college expansions we estimate the effects of college education on female … fertility. While college education reduces the probability of becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have more children … than mothers without a college education. Lower child–income penalties of college-educated mothers of two relative to …

of peer effect we restrict to no-child-adult-peers who completed their education much before the children in our sample …