China. After instrumenting city-level education using the number of relocated university departments across cities in the … 1950s, one year more city-level education increases individual hourly wage by 22.0 percent, more than twice the OLS …

In the United States, religious attendance rises sharply with education across individuals, but religious attendance … declines sharply with education across denominations. This puzzle is explained if education both increases the returns to … social connection and reduces the extent of religious belief. The positive effect of education on sociability explains the …

The labor force participation rates of older, working-aged black men and men with lower levels of education have … historically been significantly lower than those of white men and men with more education, respectively. This paper uses data from … characteristics can account for these differences. Our analysis suggests that race and education differences in health status of …

A major benefit of education is the lower risk of unemployment at higher educational levels. In PSID (Panel Study of …

education and marital status though the marital effects are much weaker when we condition for prior health. These effects …