marriage market returns to numeracy for either gender. The second explanation is that the Indonesian education system appears …

selection issues present in other studies on single-sex education. We find that one hour a week of single-sex education benefits … classes than their peers attending coeducational classes. We find no effect of single-sex education on the probability that a … female will take technical classes and there is no effect of single-sex education for males. Furthermore we are able to …

analyse the effect of an individual’s education level on the timing of first marriage. Controlling for other institutional … factors, cohort effect and social/ family background we find that the higher an individual’s education level, the older they … are when they first marry. We find that the effect of education is much stronger for females than for males. …

by testing if more satisfied people live longer. Our results clearly confirm the importance of income, education and …

the labour market and underinvestment in education. A central insight is that the ex-post participation decision of … workers endogeneously generates increasing marginal returns to education. Although equilibrium implies underinvestment in … education, optimal policy is not to subsidise education. Instead it is to subsidise labour market participation which we argue …

parents to their children’s education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from … they are not, and that the shares are decreasing with birth order. Controlling for parental education, parental age at … birth and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education, that there is …

The changes made to Australian higher education financing in the 1996-97 Budget are arguable the most significant since …