across identification strategies in their ability to make out-of-sample predictions. We conclude that discrepancies in past … to Swedish register data, suggests that intergenerational schooling associations are largely driven by selection …

The US experienced two dramatic changes in the structure of education in a fifty year period. The first was a large … students. We study the impact of these two trends on the composition of school groups by observed ability and the importance of …

little variation in family-background effects across the ability distribution in most countries. …

performance in pre-university education. Employing data from central exit exams, a positive link between competition intensity and …

Justification for policies to encourage investments in education, particularly for individuals at the lower end of the … ability distribution, may be provided by behavioural economics. We present a prototypical model where individuals who are … potentially loss averse around their expected outcome make risky investments in education and we draw on optimal tax theory to …

This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The … findings point at a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education (primary education) tends to promote terrorism … education (university education) reduces terrorism in a cluster of countries where conditions are more favorable. This suggests …