In the United States, religious attendance rises sharply with education across individuals, but religious attendance … declines sharply with education across denominations. This puzzle is explained if education both increases the returns to … social connection and reduces the extent of religious belief. The positive effect of education on sociability explains the …

The labor force participation rates of older, working-aged black men and men with lower levels of education have … historically been significantly lower than those of white men and men with more education, respectively. This paper uses data from … characteristics can account for these differences. Our analysis suggests that race and education differences in health status of …

A major benefit of education is the lower risk of unemployment at higher educational levels. In PSID (Panel Study of …

education and marital status though the marital effects are much weaker when we condition for prior health. These effects …

It can be claimed that education is simply a normal consumption good and that like all other normal goods, an increase …

institutional structure to attitudes such as trust, individualism, and nepotism. Using data from Turkey and leveraging an education …

Higher education institutions and disciplines that traditionally did little research now reward faculty largely based … this trend. We summarize, review, and extend existing economic theories of higher education to explain why incentives for … increase student human capital more than non-researchers. In contrast, according to signaling theory, education is not …

We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital Statistics Natality files for … 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential channels through which maternal education may improve birth … education on changes in birth outcomes. Second, we have compiled a new data set on openings of two and four year colleges …

We investigate short and long-term effects of early childhood education using variation created by a unique policy …