Can we nudge children, adolescents and their parents to make better decisions on
education? And can we nudge teachers to support and encourage better decision making …

This article distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development
and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of …

Importance Cancers are a leading cause of mortality, accounting for nearly 10 million annual
deaths worldwide, or 1 in 6 deaths. Cancers also negatively affect countries' economic …

In the 60-plus year history of returns to investment in education estimates, there have been
several compilations in the literature. This paper updates Psacharopoulos and Patrinos and …

Background Road injuries are among the ten leading causes of death worldwide and also
impede economic wellbeing and macroeconomic performance. Beyond medical data on the …

A rigorous, pathbreaking analysis demonstrating that a country's prosperity is directly related
in the long run to the skills of its population. In this book Eric Hanushek and Ludger …

This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that
synthesizes approaches in the structural dynamic discrete choice literature with approaches …

Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the
role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely …

We design and implement a large-scale resume correspondence study to address
limitations of existing field experiments testing for age discrimination that may bias their …

Recent stories of soaring student debt levels and under-placed college graduates have
caused some to question whether a college education is still a sound investment. In this …