Education correlates strongly with most important social and economic outcomes such as
economic success, health, family stability, and social connections. Theories of stratification …

Returns to investment in education based on human capital theory have been estimated
since the late 1950s. In the 40‐plus year history of estimates of returns to investment in …

A goal of many health studies is to determine the causal effect of a treatment or intervention
on health outcomes. Often, it is not ethically or practically possible to conduct a perfectly …

Educated people are generally healthier, have fewer comorbidities and live longer than
people with less education,–. Much of the evidence about the effects of education comes …

Education is one of the most important predictors of people's life chances, shaping outcomes
like work and pay, health, and wealth. Explaining inequalities in educational outcomes, as …

This paper summarizes and tries to reconcile evidence from the microeconometric and
empirical macro growth literatures on the effect of schooling on income and GDP growth …

This paper reviews a set of recent studies that have attempted to measure the causal effect
of education on labor market earnings by using institutional features of the supply side of the …

In this article, we study the crime reducing potential of education, presenting causal
statistical estimates based upon a law that changed the compulsory school leaving age in …

Prior research has uncovered a large and positive correlation between education and
health. This paper examines whether education has a causal impact on health. I follow …

This paper provides a non‐technical review of the evidence on the returns to education and
training for the individual, the firm and the economy at large. It begins by reviewing the …