Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …

We analyze the intergenerational education mobility of Canadian men and women born to immigrants. A detailed portrait … education has not changed across the birth cohorts of the post-war period. …

We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial … are more likely to invest in the stock market. However, little is known about whether this is a causal effect of education … or whether it arises from the correlation of education with unobserved characteristics. Using exogenous variation in …

immigration. This paper examines the education outcomes of a cohort of immigrants who arrived in Canada as children. The 2006 … of both early childhood investment and the structure of the education system faced by young adolescents in determining …

The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in … Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European … marginal return to the marginal cost of education - we speculate that either marginal costs are steeper in Italy or that a …

market experience at a given age for a given level of education; however, this becomes less important as individuals age. …