education outcomes. This paper explores the use of college proximity as an exogenous determinant of schooling. Analysis of the … education and earnings than other men. The education and earnings gains are concentrated among men with poorly-educated parents … affirm that marginal returns to education among children of less-educated parents are as high and perhaps much higher than …

between the return to education and measures of school quality is similar for blacks and whites. Since improvements in school … education. Holding constant school quality measures, however, we find no evidence that parental income or education affects …This paper estimates the effects of school quality - - measured by the pupil-teacher ratio, the average term length …

performance. Third, to the extent that class size matters, it is more important for disadvantaged children. Special education … by lowering class size. The theory provides a measurable and operational way to define school quality that can be tested … successes, public school incentives differ from those of private schools …

There is much public discussion but almost no evidence on the effects of high school curriculum on postsecondary … education and on success in the labor market. I use the large variation in curriculum across US high schools to identify the … courses in academic subject is small. One cannot account for the value of a year of high school with estimates of the value of …

landmark mass schooling effort in Indonesia aimed to secularize education and to curb religious influence in society. The … regime built 61,000 public elementary schools, seeking in part to upend a longstanding Islamic school system. Using novel … data on Islamic school construction and curriculum, we identify short-run effects on exposed cohorts as well as dynamic …

discontinuity in wage rate growth which occurs when an individual completes school and joins the labor force as a permanent member …. This suggests that the time spent in work while attending school is in some sense secondary. Here, the marginal value of …, students will be willing to accept lower paying jobs which do not greatly diminish the productivity of school time in lieu of …

Governments have used vouchers to spend billions of dollars on private education; much of this spending has gone to …