Rising college enrollment over the last quarter century has not been met with a proportional
increase in college completion. Comparing the high school classes of 1972 and 1992, we …

This paper applies a unified methodology to multiple data sets to estimate both the levels
and trends in US high school graduation rates. We establish that (a) the true rate is …

Do low fertility and population aging lead to economic decline if couples have fewer
children, but invest more in each child? By addressing this question, this article extends …

Across the demographic transition, declining mortality followed by declining fertility produces
decades of rising support ratios as child dependency falls. These improving support ratios …

We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set
from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994–2005. We analyze cross …

La literatura internacional ha documentado extensamente la importancia de los programas
de política pública diseñados para la primera infancia. Entre los aspectos más …

The recent literature on instrumental variables (IV) features models in which agents sort into
treatment status on the basis of gains from treatment as well as on baseline-pretreatment …

Dieser Artikel untersucht die Entwicklung der Bildungsrenditen auf dem westdeutschen
Arbeitsmarkt während der letzten beiden Jahrzehnte. In dieser Periode betraten …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to investigate the rates of return and the risks of
different types of educational paths–all leading to a tertiary educational degree. The paper …

Why don't all countries converge rapidly to the use of most efficient or best practice
technologies? Micro level studies suggest managerial skills play a key role in the adoption …