little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we …

little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we …

There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly …

There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly …

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 …

We find that over the period 1950–1990, states in United States absorbed increases in the supply of schooling due to … tighter compulsory schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of … production. Shifts in the industry composition towards more schooling-intensive industries played a less important role. To try …

both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with …This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … education on health. Higher educational levels are found to be positively related to self-reported health but negatively related …