levels and returns to human capital investments. These include the higher return to and level of schooling, the small effect …We use a model of human capital investment and activity choice to explain facts describing gender differentials in the … of healthiness on wages, and the large effect of healthiness on schooling for females relative to males. The model …

life expectancy has a positive effect on schooling but a negative effect on expected lifetime labor supply. This paper …

life expectancy has a positive effect on schooling but a negative effect on expected lifetime labor supply. This paper …

women, but is associated with less unpaid work. In countries where substantial gender gaps in schooling exist, enrollment …

Consider the following facts. In 1950, the richest countries attained an average of 8 years of schooling whereas the … poorest countries 1.3 years, a large 6-fold difference. By 2005, the difference in schooling declined to 2-fold because … schooling increased faster in poor than in rich countries. What explains educational attainment differences across countries and …

schooling whereas the poorest ten-percent of countries attained 1.3 years, a 6-fold difference. By 2005, the difference in … schooling declined to 2-fold. The fact is that schooling has increased faster in poor than in rich countries. What explains … capital accumulation with two novel but important features: non-homotetic preferences and an operating labor supply margin. We …

How much would output increase if underdeveloped economies were to increase their levels of schooling? We contribute to … generated by more schooling. The advantage of our approach is that the upper bound is valid for any number of schooling levels … forms of endogenous technology response to changes in schooling. We also quantify the upper bound for all economies with the …