of cross-national growth have done little to clarify the dimensions of relevant human capital or any implications for … have a strong and robust influence on growth. One standard deviation in measured cognitive skills translates into one … percent difference in average annual real growth ratesþan effect much stronger than changes in average years of schooling, the …

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

We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital Statistics Natality files for … 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential channels through which maternal education may improve birth … education on changes in birth outcomes. Second, we have compiled a new data set on openings of two and four year colleges …

This paper reviews the literature on the relationship of economic growth to the education levels of the labor force …

by family income and maternal education. We find that mental health conditions, and especially ADHD, have large negative … effects on future test scores and schooling attainment, regardless of family income and maternal education …

Education is usually the most important predictor of political and social engagement. Over the last half century … between the relative education having positive effects on participation. Using a broad range of evidence, including the data … used by NJS-B, this paper shows that increases in average education levels improve trust and do not reduce participation …

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …

Victor Fuchs has suggested that the persistent positive correlation between education and health habits can be … for education in standard wage equations. We use whether an individual smoked at age 18 in such a fashion. The instrument … is strongly correlated with years of education, and IV estimates of the return to schooling are 10 percent larger than …