We estimate the causal effect of maternal education on the mental health of mother's children in late adolescence and … adulthood. Theoretical considerations are ambiguous about a causal effect of maternal education on children's mental health. To … identify the causal effect of maternal education, we exploit exogenous variation in maternal years of schooling, caused by a …

children and participating in the labor market. Chapter 3 provides evidence that the content of science education standards in …

compulsory schooling increased from 5 to 8 years in 1997. This increase was accompanied by a massive construction of classrooms … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … completion of 8 years or more of schooling by about 7.1 percentage points. We use this exogenous increase in the educational …

compulsory schooling increased from 5 to 8 years in 1997. This increase was accompanied by a massive construction of classrooms … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … completion of 8 years or more of schooling by about 7.1 percentage points. We use this exogenous increase in the educational …