education in China appear to be zero. We estimate an instrumental variables fixed effects model where share of college graduates … is instrumented by the number of universities with special status and find positive external returns to education of … rural, men, and low-educated workers. This finding provides the motivation for increasing education investment in rural …

Vaccination represents a canonical example of externalities in economics, yet there are few estimates of their …

of welfare-relevant externalities. In this paper, we test whether mandating employee access to paid sick leave has …

We show that downsizing has substantial externalities on the health of workers who remain in the firm. To this end, we … health externalities due to downsizing imply non-negligible cost for firms, and that wage cuts may have similar effects. …

to malaria, with forest cover having no discernible effect on other diseases with a disease ecology different from that …

We use the extension of compulsory education from five to eight years in Turkey as an instrument for educational … attainment to investigate the causal effects of education on prosocial behavior by utilizing Turkish Time Use Survey data. Ours … is the first paper that investigates the causal effect of education on volunteering. We find that the education reform …

productivity from adoption of genetically modified soybeans and look at externalities across municipalities sharing the same water …