year after the first child is born, mothers’ annual earnings drop by 11% while men’s remain unchanged. The gender gap is …

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 …

Sjaastad (1962) viewed migration in the same way as education: as an investment in the human agent . Migration and … education are decisions that are indeed intertwined in many dimensions. Education and skill acquisition play an important role … the educational attainment of their children. But migration and education are not only related for those who migrate or …

To our knowledge, this paper provides the first study evaluating the effects of higher education for adults on the … education in 1992–1993. Our sample is aged 42–55 at the time of enrollment and thus aged 60–73 in 2010. We find that higher … education increases labor market survival rates when aged 61–66 by about 5 percentage points. The estimates represent relatively …