In the United States, married people have better outcomes on a variety of measures of
wellbeing than do single persons. People who participate in religious activities show similar …

Education is critical for economic growth and poverty reduction. Quality education systems
produce the global economy's workers and expand knowledge. Schooling enables students …

Background. Epidemiological studies have found lower than expected prevalence of
psychiatric disorders among disadvantaged race-ethnic minority groups in the USA. Recent …

This note reviews and synthesizes research on the effects of religion on various economic
and demographic behaviors of individuals and families in the United States, including the …

This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the largely ignored issue of the
determinants of the educational attainment of adults by immigrant generation. Using current …

We ask how the advantages and disadvantages in the educational careers of children of
immigrants in Sweden are produced, making a theoretical distinction between mechanisms …

In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel
and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate …

The authors ask whether choice-driven education systems, with comprehensive schools and
mass education at the secondary and tertiary level, represented in this article by England …

I relate the demand for children to parental incomes and the cost of rearing children—
especially to the value of the time spent on child care and to public policies that change the …

The speed at which immigrants assimilate is the subject of debate. Human capital formation
plays a major role in this discussion. We compare second generation immigrants' …