Education is strongly associated with better health and longer lives. However, the extent to
which education causes health and longevity is widely debated. We develop a human …

Economists and social scientists have long been interested in intergenerational mobility,
and documenting the persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an …

Companies have recently begun to sell a new service to patients considering in vitro
fertilization: embryo selection based on polygenic scores (ESPS). These scores represent …

I study whether exposure to teacher stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science
Implicit Association Test, affects student achievement. I provide evidence that the gender …

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 …

It is often observed that individuals with higher education levels tend to be more
environmentally friendly. Yet, the causal evidence is lacking because there may well be …

Increasing wealth provides key motivation for students to forgo earnings and struggle
through exams. But, as we argue in this paper, schooling generates many experiences and …

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Low levels of education are a powerful predictor of anti-immigration sentiment. However,
there is little consensus on the interpretation of this correlation: is it causal or is it an artifact …

Greenwood, and Aranth Seshadri 2002; and Roland Bénabou 2002). The implicit
assumption in this approach is that inputs into the production of skills at different stages of …