Estimates of the Effect of Parents’ Schooling on Children’s Schooling Using Censored and Uncensored Samples In this paper we estimate the impact of parental schooling on child schooling, focus on the problem that children who are still in school constitute censored observations, and evaluate three solutions to it: maximum likelihood approach, replacement of observed with expected years of schoo...

This paper extends the previous literature on the intergenerational transmission of human capital by exploiting variation in compulsory schooling reforms across nine European countries over the period 1920-1956. My empirical strategy follows an IV approach, instrumenting parental education with years of compulsory schooling. I nd some evidence of a causal relationship between parents' and child...

Average schooling in US states is highly correlated with state wage levels, even after controll ing for the direct effect of schooling on individual wages. We use an instrumental variables strategy to determine whether this relationship is driven by social returns to education. The instruments for average schooling are derived from information on the child labor laws and compulsory attendance l...

Although descriptions of striking diversity in animal behavior are plentiful, little is known about the mechanisms by which behaviors change and evolve between groups. To fully understand behavioral evolution, it will be necessary to identify the genetic mechanisms that mediate behavioral change in a natural context. Genetic analysis of behavior can also reveal associations between behavior and...

Are low levels of schooling infrastructure—in particular, access to secondary schools— and low schooling investment solely the result of failed educational policies, or do they reflect the low school demand that stems from slow economic growth? This paper examines this question by analyzing a large data set in a framework that bases human capital investment on expected returns to schooling. It ...

In this paper we use German Microcensus data to investigate whether the positive relationship between higher levels of schooling and health is causal by exploiting a natural experiment in Western Germany. During the 1960’s and 1970’s the educational system greatly expanded in Western Germany, but the timing of the educational expansion differed between states. This introduces exogenous variatio...