Governments invest a lot of money in education, so it is important to understand the benefits of this spending. One … essential aspect is that education may make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment outcomes of … inequality in current and future generations. In addition to purely formal education, much less expensive interventions to …

innovation in education, but the picture is ambiguous for health care. Natural monopolies are unsuitable for outsourcing. Network …

lives. The return to education varies greatly by institutional quality, discipline, and individual characteristics …

Formal schooling increases earnings and provides other individual benefits. However, societal benefits of education may … exceed individual benefits. Research finds that increased average education levels in an area are correlated with higher … earnings, even for locals with relatively little education. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates …

At the national level, it has long been observed that a country’s average education level is negatively associated with … its total fertility rate. At the household level, it has also been well documented that children’s education is negatively … children and the average education level (the quantity–quality trade-off)? A clear answer to this question will help both …

in migrant parents' socio-economic background, cultural capital, and language skills. Education policy needs to focus on …-born populations. With the wealth of many industrialized countries threatened by a lack of qualified labor, education of immigrants …

its byproduct, as better education and personal characteristics could be both economically beneficial and increase the …

the costs and benefits of smaller classes concludes that other education policies, such as tutoring, early childhood …