period, first the post-World War baby boom and then the substantial increase in education led to higher economic growth than … otherwise expected. As the pace of increase in education slowed and the workforce aged toward the end of the period, human …

This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A …, it shows that the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in …

affect boys more than girls. To make the adults literate (five years of education) only is not enough to eliminate the gender …This paper estimates gender differences in children’s time allocation among four ordered options. It analyses the … gap in schooling; a greater number of years of adult education is necessary. The female adult education may be devised to …

also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education …

This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the 2017 Household Labor … Force Survey and alternative methodologies. The analysis uses the 1997 education reform of increasing compulsory education … by three years as an instrument. This results in a private rate of return on the order of 16 percent for higher education …