Jobs are the primary policy concern of policymakers in many countries. The 2007–2008
global financial crisis, rising demographic pressures, high unemployment rates, and …

Parenting decisions are among the most consequential choices that people make
throughout their lives. Starting with the work of pioneers such as Gary Becker, economists …

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 …

In 2005 a large earthquake struck northern Pakistan. Exposure to the earthquake was
plausibly exogenous to household and individual characteristics, and households received …

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant education disruption in Ontario. This has
included mass and localized school closures, multiple models of educational provision 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 …

Adolescent growth and social development shape the early development of offspring from
preconception through to the post-partum period through distinct processes in males and …

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 …

We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since
independence using census data. First, we map IM across 27 countries and more than 2800 …

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 …