This study comprises two meta-analyses conducted to investigate relations between
socioeconomic status (SES) and academic achievement, with a focus on macro-level, micro …

We estimate the effects of the extension of compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years in Turkey
on marriage and birth outcomes of teenage girls, using a regression discontinuity design …

We study the aggregate labor force participation behavior of women over a 25-year period in
Turkey using a synthetic panel approach. In our decomposition of age, year, and cohort …

One in five youth aged 15 to 24 in Latin America is out of school and not working (ninis).
Nearly 60 percent of ninis in the region are from poor or vulnerable households in the …

Using a unique survey of adults in Turkey, we find that an increase in educational
attainment, due to an exogenous secular education reform, decreased women's propensity …

We examine how Turkey's 1997 compulsory schooling policy affects intimate partner
violence (IPV) using the 2008 and 2014 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence …

Although the impact of education on health is important for public policy everywhere, the
overwhelming majority of research identifying the health returns to education has focused on …

In this paper, we estimate returns to schooling for young men and women in Turkey using
the exogenous and substantial variation in schooling across birth cohorts brought about by …

We take advantage of a major compulsory schooling reform in Turkey to provide novel
evidence on the causal effect of education on both the incidence and timing of internal …

We evaluate the impact on earnings, pensions, and further labor market outcomes of two
parallel educational reforms increasing instructional time in Swedish primary school. The …