ABSTRACT A growing body of work suggests that education offers a wide-range of benefits
that extend beyond increases in labor market productivity. Improvements in education can …

This article evaluates a body of recent work that uses field and natural experiments to
answer the question of whether informed voters can enforce better governance. A common …

Increasing wealth provides key motivation for students to forgo earnings and struggle
through exams. But, as we argue in this paper, schooling generates many experiences and …

This article uses data on more than 1,000 political leaders between 1875 and 2004 to
investigate whether having a more educated leader affects the rate of economic growth. We …

One of the most consistently documented relationships in the field of political behavior is the
close association between educational attainment and political participation. Although most …

This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals' transitions between
employment and unemployment, with particular focus on the extent to which education …

This paper uses a unique data set on over 1,400 world leaders between 1848 and 2004 to
investigate differences in educational qualifications between leaders who are selected in …

The estimation of the economic return to education has perhaps been one of the
predominant areas of analysis in applied economics for over 50 years. In this short note we …

This paper considers the effects of the local human capital level and the presence of higher
education institutions on the quality of life in US metropolitan areas. The local human capital …

There have been multiple trends of building democratic citizens through formal education,
and in the European context the trials have been dramatically increased with the …