surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …

Can we nudge children, adolescents and their parents to make better decisions on education? And can we nudge teachers … to support and encourage better decision making? Education decisions are taken at young ages and involve immediate costs …

This paper surveys the trends in gender gaps in education, their causes and potential policy implications. I show that … tertiary education students and graduates. Existing evidence suggests that this pattern is a result of a combination of … increasing returns to education and lower female effort costs of education. Widening gender gap in education combined with recent …

the child's higher education operates through deprivation of economic resources. Using one million siblings, we find that …

This review describes the research frontier on human capital and education in economics research. It delineates what is … aims. First, it draws out the implications for key education policy issues, highlighting which policy ideas can be …

Formal education is correlated with entrepreneurial activity and success, but correlation does not indicate causation …. Education and entrepreneurship are both influenced by other related factors. The current study estimates causal effects of … formal education on entrepreneurship outcomes by instrumenting for an individual's years of schooling using cohort mean years …

This paper tests whether and how two education policies: (i) increasing the length of compulsory education and (ii … construct a novel data base that includes information on education reforms for thirty-one countries spanning four decades … education reduces the number of emigrants by almost 10%. Increasing the length of compulsory education shifts educational …

economic success goes both ways. Using data on the study of foreign languages during compulsory education in European countries …