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 …

We estimate the lifecycle benefits of policies that raise the minimum school leaving age
(MSLA). Using a difference-in-differences method, we estimate the causal impact of two …

We revisit the question of what is the rate of return to education in Great Britain. We make
two contributions. Firstly, we re-assess the robustness of Harmon and Walker (1995) …

We estimate the influence of education on vaccine hesitancy focusing on the Covid-19
pandemic. To address the bias arising from the endogeneity of education, we leverage the …

In this note, we use the UK Labour Force Survey to estimate the wage return to an additional
year of schooling for Scotland and Northern Ireland exploiting the 1972 Raising of the …

Study of the “returns to education” has been one of the most productive areas of research in
labor economics for the last seven decades, and it is very likely that it will continue to be a …

Despite serving as one of the more celebrated relationships in health economics, evidence
on the relationship between education and health remains quite mixed {with limited …

The negative association of education and fertility, over time and between countries, is a
central stylized fact of social science. Yet we have scant evidence on whether this is, or is …

There have been many studies estimating the causal effect of an additional year of
education on earnings. The majority employ administrative changes in the minimum school …

Agricultural policy is shifting in England to a model based on public money for public goods.
Chapter 2 assesses the broader socio-economic effects at the territorial level of farms …