The powerful relationship between education and voter turnout is arguably the most well‐
documented and robust finding in American survey research. Yet the causal interpretation of …

Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? In an important article, studied the 1947
British compulsory schooling law change and found large returns to schooling of about 15 …

Education is by far the strongest predictor of whether a non-economist will share the
economic beliefs of the average economist.(Caplan, 2001) Is the effect of education as large …

This paper examines whether schooling has a causal impact on individuals' political
behavior. Between 1949 and 1969, the number of compulsory years of schooling in the …

Zusammenfassung Die Theorie rationaler Bildungsentscheidungen nimmt derzeit in der
Bildungsforschung einen sehr prominenten Platz ein. Der vorliegende Beitrag geht daher …

Does a nation's contingent value of hosting a mega event depend on past experience with
implied benefits? Applying data from ex‐ante and ex‐post queries, we use the FIFA World …

Understanding the conditions underlying the proliferation of infectious diseases is crucial for
mitigating future outbreaks. Since its arrival in North America in 1999, West Nile virus (WNV) …

We estimate the effect that dropping out of high school has on 8 outcomes pertaining to
wages, employment and subsequent skill acquisition for youths. Our analysis is based on …

Recent changes in public school educational finance in the state of Kansas are shown to
have had little positive effect on student educational achievement. A differences structure is …

Estimates of the UK's stock of human capital are derived by applying a lifetime labour
income methodology to data from the UK Labour Force Survey. The results show that using …