Non-production benefits of education
Subtitle: crime, health, and good citizenship
By: Lance Lochner
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16722; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16722.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Description: "The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this.  You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email.  A growing body of work suggests that education offers a wide-range of benefits that extend beyond increases in labor market productivity.  Improvements in education can lower crime, improve health, and increase voting and democratic participation.  This chapter reviews recent developments on these known-production  benefits of education with an emphasis on contributions made by economists"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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