The idea of positive educational externalities is that the benefits of individually acquired
education may not be restricted to the individual but might spill over to others as well …

Much of the research examining the question of how federal financial aid affects decisions to
enroll in college has focused on the behavior of students in the relatively narrow range …

The extent to which human capital, especially schooling, contributes to social well-being and
economic growth is an important question, and has been addressed in numerous research …

Issues related to a “skills” strategy, or per-haps more accurately a “high skills” strategy,
appear to be near the top of the public policy agenda. Internationally, for example, the …

I assess the magnitude of human capital spillovers in US cities by estimating plant-level
production functions. I use a unique firm worker matched dataset, obtained by combining the …

A parametric and a semiparametric model produce qualitatively similar estimates of
government policy effects on income distribution and welfare (as measured by the Gini …

Though popular, registered education savings plans and the related Canadian education
savings grants are a needless, complex and ill-targeted way of supporting postsecondary …

The area of political economy has been one of the most vibrant in the DAE Program.
Corruption in the political sphere is a subject of great current interest. Was government in the …

Abstract Currently, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the most expensive
cash'assistance program in the US, while also representing one of the main changes in …

We develop a model of child labour where poverty and inequality combine to determine
policy response to child labour. If there are strategic complementarities between parents' …