The role of improved schooling, a central part of most development strategies, has become
controversial because expansion of school attainment has not guaranteed improved …

This paper provides a review of empirical studies into the impact of formal schooling on
entrepreneurship selection and performance in industrial countries. We describe the main …

This article investigates whether increasing mandatory educational attainment through
compulsory schooling legislation encourages women to delay childbearing. We use …

This paper uses the randomization of families to child protection investigators to estimate
causal effects of foster care on adult crime. The analysis uses a new data set that links …

Half of college students drop out without completing a degree. This paper establishes a
causal link between college costs and degree completion. I use quasi-experimental …

We estimate the impact of compulsory schooling on earnings using changes in compulsory
schooling laws in West Germany after World War II. Most estimates in the literature indicate …

This paper analyzes the relationships between juvenile justice system interactions and high
school graduation. When controlling for a large set of observable and unobservable …

The effect of education on health has been increasing over the past several decades. We
hypothesize that this increasing disparity is related to health-related technical progress …

Over the past 40 years, the age at which children enter first grade has slowly drifted upward.
In the fall of 1968, 96 percent of six-year-old children were enrolled in first grade or above …

This paper reviews empirical evidence, especially from Europe, on how education and
training policies can be designed to advance both efficiency and equity. Returns to …