heterogeneity. We argue that serfdom hampered peasants’ demand for education whereas the successive emancipation triggered a demand …

economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible … evidence on which education policy reforms may be able to bring about the simulated improvements in educational outcomes. …

We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern … education CCT that conditions renewal on school performance reduces teenage pregnancy; the program can increase teenage … teenage pregnancy of two education CCTs implemented in Bogotá (Subsidio Educativo, SE, and Familias en Acción, FA); both …

Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …

The interaction between investment in children’s education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The … causal effect of education is identified through exogenous variation in enrollment rates due to differences in landownership …

be led back to the intrinsic motivation of Protestants to read the bible and whether other education motives were … hypothesis. However, Protestants’ education motives went beyond reading the bible. …

work a child does, are private information, the second-best policy uses a combination of need and merit based education …

It has been argued that increased life expectancy raises the rate of return on education, causing a rise in the … investment in education followed by an increase in lifetime labor supply. Empirical evidence of these relations is rather weak … dependence of hazard rates, which determine individuals’ behavioral response w.r.t. education, work and age of retirement …

performance in pre-university education. Employing data from central exit exams, a positive link between competition intensity and …