While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and … heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical models, laments the absence of a good workhorse model and points out the challenges …

support this empirical finding. Yet, the standard approach to the estimation of schooling returns does not account for this … commonly used static-model estimators of schooling coefficients are subject to an omitted-variable bias which can be named …

population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate micro-founded fertility and schooling into …

why compulsory schooling has comparatively small effects on longevity and why the gradient gets larger over time through …

generated by the removal of school fees in Ethiopia. The increase in schooling caused by this reform is identified using both … reform. The model finds that the removal of school fees in Ethiopia led to an increase of over 1.5 years of schooling for … schooling on fertility. Each additional year of schooling led to a reduction in fertility, a delay in sexual activity, marriage …

Economists have long recognized the important role of formal schooling and cognitive skills on labor market … schooling, there is no strong evidence that skills measured in childhood predict wages in the early years of labor market …