Objectives This report reviews the evidence on the hypothesis that education has important
social impacts on health. In reviewing the evidence, we highlight those studies that have …

Quantile regression is gradually emerging as a unified statistical methodology for estimating
models of conditional quantile functions. By complementing the exclusive focus of classical …

Quantile regression, as introduced by Koenker and Bassett (1978), may be viewed as an
extension of classical least squares estimation of conditional mean models to the estimation …

The chronic underinvestment in higher education has serious ramifications for both
individuals and society. Winner, Best Book in Education, 2009 PROSE Awards, Professional …

Quantile regression estimates of returns to education are used to address the relation
between schooling and wage inequality. Empirical evidence for male workers from 16 …

We study the effect of board independence and CEO duality on firm performance for a
sample of stock‐listed enterprises from Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea and Thailand …

" That raising income levels alleviates poverty, and that economic growth can be more or
less effective in doing so, is well known and has received renewed attention in the search for …

Unobserved heterogeneity among childbearing women makes it difficult to isolate the causal
effects of smoking and prenatal care on birth outcomes (such as birthweight). Whether a …

The report by Professors Ángel de la Fuente and Antonio Ciccone looks into the economic
return on investment in human resources as compared with other investments. It links this …

In this article we explore the usefulness of a quantile regression formulation of reanalyzing a
large experimental study that monitored age-specific mortality in a sample of roughly 1.2 …