We study the determinants of youth crime using a dynamic discrete choice model of crime and education. We allow past … education and criminal activities to affect current crime and educational decisions. We take advantage of a rich panel dataset … cognitive and social/emotional skills that feeds into the crime and education model. This allows us to separately identify the …

This paper uses cross section data to investigate whether the returns to education vary with the level of ability …, clear evidence that the return to schooling is lower for those with higher ability indicating that education can act as a … that education is also a substitute for unobserved ability. …

We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We … college education cannot universally be considered an insurance against unpredictability of wages. One conclusion is …

their children's education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from birth order … and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education and that there is …

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional … transmit the effect of maternal education to the child, including family environment and parental investments at different ages …

One theory for why there is a strong education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more … parents decreased significantly faster than that by less educated parents, turning a significant positive education gradient …