A member of a collective-action household may or may not share the benefits of literacy with others in that household … survey data for Bangladesh we find strong external effects of education on individual earnings. Holding a range of personal …, but would also be consistent with an intra-household externality of literacy …

This paper evaluates the effects of parental income volatility on children’s entrepreneurial decisions in Sweden. We … first show that individuals who experience higher uninsurable parental income volatility during adolescence are more likely … to become entrepreneurs. A one-standard deviation increase in parental income volatility is associated with an increase …

literacy as the ability to productively use written information. Significant effects are found for developed and developing … countries, leading on an aggregated macro level to a positive relationship between literacy and economic development. (2) The …

to various skills - including literacy, numeracy, foreign language, and field-specific skills. Graduates of academic …

direct effects between education and income as well as the different transmission channels, such as occupational choices …