regarding human capital investment are no longer exclusively about the quantity of education, but rather the type of education … this premise in mind, this paper aims to estimate the effect of the quality of this education-occupation job match on … education (college or more). Using data from the American Community Survey 2010-16, we construct two indices that measure the …

Franziska Bernadette Hampf prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education … of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays investigating various aspects of the link between education …

and an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first comprehensive evaluation of SET. This is relevant given the …

health and women's earnings following IVF birth, along-side an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first …

Fertility in the US exhibits an increasingly more procyclical pattern. We argue that women's breadwinner status is … behind procyclical fertility: (i) women's relative income in the family has increased over time; and (ii) women are more … effect of women's income. Our quantitative framework features a general equilibrium OLG model with endogenous fertility and …

This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical … literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …