capitalize on the existence of a natural experiment born out of a district's use of an exogenously- determined cutoff in Iowa … average literacy ability in fifth grade. © 2015 Association for Education Finance and Policy …

Education plays an important role in the economic and social development of countries. Myriad studies show that … education is one of the best ways to offer increased socioeconomic opportunities, social mobility and wages. Not only is … universal education important but more significant is the quality of the education. In an attempt to offer higher …

between education, occupation, income, property, lifestyle etc, which facilitates the identification of social classes. New …

This paper analyzes the equity of opportunity in basic education and infrastructure services in seven developing …. Opportunities to access basic education and infrastructure services in the seven countries vary widely in terms of availability and …

In this paper we hypothesize that education is associated with a higher efficiency of health investment, yet that this … COPD, education still plays a role. …

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education(i.e. the … effect of entering secondary school as opposed to leaving school after primary education) is positive and amounts to a 4 …

so. In this paper we develop an economic theory of unhealthy food choice, and use a Discrete Choice Experiment to … the education disparity in diet. However, when faced with the most explicit health information regarding diet, lower … theoretical prediction that part of the education differences across health behaviours is driven by the "marginal value of health …