This review provides an in-depth appraisal of a wide body of international research that
examines the links between education and training in a country and its macroeconomic …

This paper considers the empirical literature on the nature and sources of urban increasing
returns, also known as agglomeration economies. An important aspect of these externalities …

We estimate the effect of education on participation in criminal activity using changes in state
compulsory schooling laws over time to account for the endogeneity of schooling decisions …

I assess the magnitude of human capital spillovers by estimating production functions using
a unique firm-worker matched data set. Productivity of plants in cities that experience large …

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 …

Many studies document an association between schooling and civic participation, but none
credibly investigate causal links. We explore the effect of extra schooling induced through …

We exploit the military mobilization for World War II to investigate the effects of female labor
supply on the wage structure. The mobilization drew many women into the workforce …

What is the effect of an increase in the overall level of human capital on the economy of a
city? Although much is known about the private return to education, much less is known …

Between 1980 and 2000, the population of metropolitan areas where less than 10 percent of
adults had college degrees in 1980, grew on aver age by 13 percent. Among metropolitan …

An important component of the long-run cost of a war is the loss of human capital suffered by
school-age children who receive less education. Austrian and German individuals who were …