This paper investigates the intergenerational effects of maternal education on child health in
68 developing countries across five continents over nearly three decades. Exploiting the …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and
poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable …

The pleasures of life are worth nothing if one is not alive to experience them. Through the
twentieth century in the United States and other high-income countries, growth in real …

The first part of the lecture will review some of the evidence about the determinants of health
at birth. I argue that individuals may start with very different endowments at birth because of …

Women are currently the majority of US college students and of those receiving a bachelor's
degree, but were 39 percent of undergraduates in 1960. We use three longitudinal data sets …

This paper estimates marginal returns to college for individuals induced to enroll in college
by different marginal policy changes. The recent instrumental variables literature seeks to …

Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of one-year
mortality rates and longer run in terms of educational attainment and earnings. However …

The hypothesized effects of educational attainment on adult civic engagement and attitudes
provide some of the most important justifications for government intervention in the market …

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. Why is this?
There are a number of possible explanations. One is a pure selection story: the type of …

ABSTRACT A growing body of work suggests that education offers a wide-range of benefits
that extend beyond increases in labor market productivity. Improvements in education can …