We examine how terrorism alters the demand for education through perceived risks and returns by relating terrorist … beliefs about risks and returns to education. We exploit the same quasi-experimental variation as in the reduced form analysis …

of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic backgrounds, show … acquisition and investment in human capital. The models account for different channels underlying unequal education and highlight … summarize early evidence on the impact of the pandemic on children's education and on possible long-run repercussions for …

This study throws light on the potential non-linear effects of education on individual health and health …-related behaviors, finding a strong role for higher education. Using an instrumental variables (IVs) strategy, which leverages changes … in within-province between-municipality college proximity across birth cohorts, we demonstrate that higher education …

We propose a model of intergenerational transmission of education wherein children belong to either highly educated or … interactions with other low-educated students (i.e., homophily), which reduces the education effort of their parents and, thus … kids from different education backgrounds can be effective in reducing the education gap between them …

This paper presents evidence of substantial causal effects of parental education on children's health behaviours and … unhealthy lifestyles. We find no effects of paternal education. Children's peer environment early in life and increased … investments in their education are possible effect channels. The intergenerational effects exceed the direct effects on health …

Several studies have found a positive association between education and health. Confounding factors that a ect both … education choices and health, such as (ob- served) parental background and (unobserved) intelligence, may play an important role … in shaping this association. In this paper we estimate the impact of education on diseases in old age, accounting for …

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 …

In this study, we examine the impact of an individual's education level on her/his mating success by means of a field … field of evolutionary psychology, our results indicate a heterogeneous effect of education level by gender: while females … for educational assortative mating, i.e. preferring a partner with a similar education level, on mobile dating apps such …