I evaluate the impact of the right to education from the passing of the Right to Education Act in India in 2009. This … Act guaranteed free education to children aged 6-14 years, including children with disabilities. Given that the school … study estimation and an interrupted time series research design and find that the Right to Education Act led to a 60 per …

schooling of the oldest child in a migrant household affects parents' integration. My analysis links administrative records on … discontinuity design around the school enrollment cutoff and an instrumental variable approach I show that children's schooling …

How does the rate at which firms adopt new technologies affect the level of education and training of a country … would be the optimum level of education spending in front of a faster arrival of new technologies? This paper tries to … answer these questions by developing an endogenous growth model with creative 'wear and tear' in which general education …

In this paper, we analyze the completed highest education degree of two birth cohorts (1934-1943 and 1964-1973) in … tertiary education can be explained by the fact that the gap in participation rates between women with lowly educated parents … models show that financial problems have become more important as an impediment for higher education. …

, good long-term nutritional status) helps insure resilience to disasters by protecting schooling investments and outcomes … frequent, repeated drought exposure reduces schooling investments in some cases, with larger negative impacts seen among … stock in the household) also help maintain schooling investments to at least the same degree as the stock of human capital …

Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the causal effects of education on freedom of spouse choice …. We use war disruptions and spatial indicators of schooling supply as instruments. The point estimates indicate that a … year of additional schooling reduces the probability of an arranged marriage by about 14 percentage points for an …