This paper surveys the recent literature on the causal relationship between education and
earnings. I focus on four areas of work: theoretical and econometric advances in modelling …

Returns to investment in education based on human capital theory have been estimated
since the late 1950s. In the 40‐plus year history of estimates of returns to investment in …

Between 1973 and 1978, the Indonesian government engaged in one of the largest school
construction programs on record. Combining differences across regions in the number of …

This paper summarizes and tries to reconcile evidence from the microeconometric and
empirical macro growth literatures on the effect of schooling on income and GDP growth …

This paper reviews a set of recent studies that have attempted to measure the causal effect
of education on labor market earnings by using institutional features of the supply side of the …

Social participation has been linked to healthy aging and the maintenance of functional
independence in older individuals. However, causality remains tenuous because of the …

What role does human capital investment play in lowering the growth rates of resource-
abundant countries? Most governments around the world extol the benefits of education; …

This paper tries to reconcile evidence on the effect of schooling on income and on GDP
growth from the microeconometric and empirical macro growth literatures. Much …

We measure the effect of resource‐sector dependence on long‐run income growth using the
natural experiment of coal mining in 409 Appalachian counties selected for homogeneity …

This paper examines the long-term effects of exposure to civil war and genocide on the
educational attainment, earnings, and fertility of individuals in Cambodia. Given the well …