Do better‐informed people vote more? Recent formal theories of voter turnout emphasize a
positive effect of being informed on the propensity to vote, but the possibility of endogenous …

This paper uses household data from India to examine the economic and social status of
village politicians, and how individual and village characteristics affect politician behavior …

The current chapter gives a general overview for the goal of this book. The purposes of the
present volume are (1) to identify the challenges facing those adolescents and young adults …

This paper addresses three questions commonly raised about conditional cash transfer
(CCT) programs for child human capital development:(1) When to use the CCT …

Social returns to human capital Page 1 Moretti, Enrico Article Social returns to human capital
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Economic theory advances various arguments in favor of and against privatizing education.
In this paper, we investigate empirically the extent to which these arguments influence …

Secondary schools in the developed world differ in the degree of differentiation and in the
first age of selection of pupils into different tracks. In this paper, we account for the …

Human capital is typically viewed as generating a number of desirable outcomes, including
economic growth. Yet, in spite of its importance, few empirical studies have explored why …

This work consists of two parts. In the first part I analyze the influence of personal mobility on
the citizens' willingness to run for a political office in their municipality and on the resulting …