We investigate assortative mating on education using a sample of couples from the Health and Retirement Study. We … estimate a reduced-form linear matching function, which links wife's education to husband's education and both wife's and … husband's unobservable characteristics. Using OLS we find that an additional year in husband's education is associated with an …

.3% reduction in lifetime hospital stays, 19.7 for specialists). We find that education impacts mortality mostly by delaying the … 0.216 compared to 0.6 in the simulation model) which suggests substantial returns to college education in terms of …

This paper estimates the impact of elite school attendance on long-run outcomes including completed education, income … and fertility. Our data consists of individuals born in the 1950s and educated in a UK district that assigned students to …, we find that elite school attendance had large impacts on completed education. For women, we find that elite school …

This paper estimates the impact of elite school attendance on long- run outcomes including completed education, income … and fertility. Our data consists of individuals born in the 1950s and educated in a UK dis- trict that assigned students … formula, we find that elite school attendance had large impacts on completed education. For women, we find that elite school …

We introduce a general framework to analyze the trade-off between education and family size. Our framework incorporates … significant birth order and family size effects in individuals' years of education thereby confirming the presence of a quantity …

growth model with endogenous fertility. I propose a redistribution scheme and show that refugee resettlement from a more …

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline …

Fertility rates significantly fell over the last decades in Latin America. In order to assess the extent to which these … microdata from national household surveys from seven Latin American countries. We find that changes in fertility rates were … fertility implied smaller families and hence larger per capita incomes. Lower fertility also fostered labor force participation …

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a …