insurance against unemployment caused by labour market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show … within a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …

examines how it affected women’s education and labour choices. We present empirical evidence based on GSS data that favours our …

Analysis of the contribution of education to growth through its role in promoting a common culture indicates that when …

private and public resources spent on foreign education, there is no systematic evidence that foreign educated individuals … indeed foreign-educated individuals promote democracy in their home country, but only if the foreign education is acquired in …

education of women. However, establishing a causal link is difficult as both fertility and education have changed secularly. The … contribution of this paper is to study the connection between fertility and education over a woman’s fertile period focusing on … selection into education. Our results indicate that increasing education leads to postponement of first births away from teenage …

the two separate margins of primary/secondary and tertiary education. Interestingly, the latter type of schooling proves …