model predicts two benchmark human capital gross returns and their corresponding wages, by levels of education. Below the … second one, human capital coming from formal education vanishes over time, due to investment not being enough to offset its … depreciation; below the first one, workers stop investing in education. Unfortunately, around 40% and 20% of Mexican workers are …

A core mechanism of unified growth theory is that accelerating technological progress induces mass education and … gender wage gap, we establish (1) a significant impact of technological progress on education (positive) and fertility …

evaluating changes in the performance of practicing Muslim students when end-of-secondary-school exams and Ramadan overlapped in … the Netherlands. Using administrative data on exam takers and a machine learning model to individually predict fasting …

construction and household-level toilet subsidy programs in rural People's Republic of China (PRC) on children's education, health … years after its implementation. Effects on education are larger for girls than for boys, and for toilet subsidy programs. On … find evidence that the toilet program had larger education effects if it was introduced after the water program. Exploiting …