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 …

Background School‐based sexual and reproductive health programmes are widely
accepted as an approach to reducing high‐risk sexual behaviour among adolescents. Many …

This article describes a framework and empirical evidence to support the argument that
educational programs and policies are crucial public health interventions. Concepts of …

It is often observed that individuals with higher education levels tend to be more
environmentally friendly. Yet, the causal evidence is lacking because there may well be …

Increasing wealth provides key motivation for students to forgo earnings and struggle
through exams. But, as we argue in this paper, schooling generates many experiences and …

Following the widespread adoption of free primary education, African policymakers are now
considering making secondary school free, but little is known about the private and social …

Researchers make hundreds of decisions about data collection, preparation, and analysis in
their research. We use a many‐analysts approach to measure the extent and impact of these …

A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls'
dropout, pregnancy, and marriage but not sexually transmitted infection (STI). The …

We exploit a change in the compulsory schooling law in Turkey to estimate the causal effects
of education on the prevalence of domestic violence. By adopting a regression discontinuity …

The rise in educational enrolment is often cited as a possible cause of the trend to later
childbearing in developed societies but direct evidence of its contribution to the aggregate …