East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates … on human capital. The prevalence of consanguineous marriage and the resultant kinship networks can shape various … data from Turkey and leveraging an education reform which increased mandatory schooling by three years, we find that the …

We estimate a structural dynamic Roy model of education, labor supply and earnings on the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of … males taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) and evaluate to what extent changes in education and labor … education, iii) grade progression standards, and iv) the value of non-market time. We quantify the evolution of the relative and …

-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours worked, cognitive skills (AFQT scores) and … individual differences in hours worked and education explain the remaining part almost equally. We show how our model is a … education. Finally, because policy changes induce simultaneous movements in observed choices and average per-year effects …

effects of real (as opposed to relative) family income on education have practically vanished between the early 1980's and the … unobserved characteristics, a $300,000 differential in family income generated more than 2 years of education in the early 1980's …

the macro literature on education and growth. The fraction of the population more efficient at producing skills in the …) effect education on growth measured in the empirical literature …

. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of … marriage markets will naturally tend to be hypergamous ﾖ that is, a marriage is more likely to be beneficial to both parties … goes up. The model sheds light on how marriage affects the returns to human capital for men and women. Absent marriage …

hypothesis that homeownership probabilities can be affected by marriage market expectations and pessimistic marriage market … that up to a certain threshold, the probability of homeownership decreases when the marriage market prospect indicator … improves and there is evidence of heterogeneity in this relationship across race, education level, age group and motherhood …

migration, occupational choice, and earnings where, upon completing their education, individuals choose a location in which to … estimates of the returns to business and STEM majors relative to education majors are biased upward by 15% on average. Using …

Assuming decreasing returns to education and the endogenous supply of qualified and non-qualified labour it is shown to … be efficient to supplement a consumption tax with positive incentives for education. If the return from education is … isoelastic and if the choice is between (i) subsidizing the monetary cost of education and (ii) taxing non-qualified labour …