This book provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment
and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century. The authors …

The fact that many citizens fail to vote is often cited to motivate others to vote. Psychological
research on descriptive social norms suggests that emphasizing the opposite—that many do …

Despite the large amount of private and public resources spent on foreign education, there
is no systematic evidence that foreign-educated individuals foster democracy in their home …

To assess the empirical estimates of the effect of education on social trust and social
participation–the basic dimensions of individual social capital–a meta-analysis is applied …

Recent studies have claimed to show a significant causal impact of education on health
status. Their empirical strategy usually relied on changes in compulsory schooling laws …

According to the sorting model of education, the impact of education on civic engagement is
relative, rather than absolute. Education correlates with greater engagement because it is a …

In politics, those who are politically sophisticated are advantaged in a variety of ways
relative to those who are not. This paper analyzes the causes of political sophistication …

This paper explores the many avenues by which schooling affects lifetime well-being.
Experiences and skills acquired in school reverberate throughout life, not just through higher …

In this paper I investigate the dynamic relationship between formal education and voter
turnout over the past half century. I reframe Brody's puzzle about why rising education levels …

The literature on schooling externalities in US cities and states is rather mixed: positive
external effects of average education levels are hardly found while positive externalities from …