This paper investigates whether education and working in a physically demanding job causally impact temporary work … contribution is to allow endogeneity of both education and occupation by estimating a quasi-maximum-likelihood discrete factor … administrative registers for 1998-2002. We generally find an independent role of both education and occupation on temporary work …

economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible … evidence on which education policy reforms may be able to bring about the simulated improvements in educational outcomes. …

two separate margins of primary/secondary and tertiary education. Interestingly, the latter type of schooling proves to be …

the determinants of education and health spending on the QG using quantile regressions to articulate least and best QG … performers. The following findings are established. First, on average, the effect of health (education) is decreasingly … positive effects with increasing magnitude among Best Performers (0.10th to 0.90th quantile) and (2) education spending has …

the contradiction between high-growth and poor social welfare and (ii) to assess the influence of education and health … Hopefuls to Best Performers, while the impact of education is increasingly positive. As a main policy implication, it would … benefit countries in SSA to invest more in health relative to education now, but decrease such health expenditure and increase …

This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals …, the empirical analysis uses World Values Surveys to study the link between education and democratic attitudes. Controlling … for a variety of characteristics, the paper finds that higher education levels tend to result in prodemocracy views. These …

increasing education and declining labor supply (of cohorts born 1850-1950) as an optimal response to increasing active life …