This article distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development
and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of …

Education is strongly associated with better health and longer lives. However, the extent to
which education causes health and longevity is widely debated. We develop a human …

As sustainable investing becomes central to capital allocation in many markets, the
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) metrics and scores have become of critical …

In the 60-plus year history of returns to investment in education estimates, there have been
several compilations in the literature. This paper updates Psacharopoulos and Patrinos and …

This book started from our discussions of a paradox. Yet despite its importance it has been
curiously little discussed in the academic literature. On the one hand, the last century of …

We use 13 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA)
survey to examine the effect of fuel poverty on subjective wellbeing (SWB) in Australia. We …

We develop a new dataset using UNESCO source materials on the location of nearly 15,000
universities in about 1,500 regions across 78 countries, some dating back to the 11th …

This report documents differences in the earnings and employment patterns of US adults
with different levels of education. It also compares health-related behaviors, reliance on …

This paper provides an overview of control function (CF) methods for solving the problem of
endogenous explanatory variables (EEVs) in linear and nonlinear models. CF methods …

Researchers striving to ensure rigor in their scientific findings face a common pitfall:
Endogeneity. To tackle this problem, scholars have increasingly adopted instrumental …