Schooling matters. Decades of research confirm that both the quality and the quantity of schooling are strongly associated with increased income, better health, lower levels of criminal activity, and less reliance on public assistance.1 The justification for public financial support of schooling is both civic and personal. Schools are expected to prepare children for the responsibilities of cit...

Lower fertility has several benefits at the individual level: fewer births are associated with better health and schooling outcomes for women and their children, with higher household income and wealth, and with improved labour market opportunities for women. Indonesia established a national family planning programme in 1969 and total fertility has declined rapidly since but there is little con...

This paper defines and estimates returns to education for earnings, health, and smoking using a dynamic model of educational choice. We synthesize approaches in the structural dynamic discrete choice literature with approaches used in the reduced form treatment effect literature. We offer an empirically robust middle ground between the two approaches to estimate economically interpretable and p...

Raising the quality of education has been one of the main objectives of the current government in Britain. By devoting more resources to the education sector, it is expected that pupils will achieve higher educational attainment by the time their years of compulsory schooling ends. This study attempts to assess the effect that the quality of schooling has on the subsequent labour market outcome...

This paper explores the causal relationship between primary schooling and adult HIV status in Malawi and Uganda, two East African countries with some of the highest HIV infection rates in the world. Using data from the 2010 Malawi Demographic Health Survey and the 2011 Uganda AIDS Indicator Survey, the paper takes advantage of a natural experiment, the implementation of Universal Primary Educat...

Caldwell hypothesized in 1980 that the onset of the fertility transition would be linked with the achievement of " mass formal schooling. " In sub-Saharan Africa, a region where some countries have begun the fertility transition but many have not, the extent of progress toward mass schooling has not yet been assessed. This paper fills a gap in the literature using newly available Demographic an...