Prologue / Joop Hartog and Henriëtte Maassen van den Brink -- Pt. 1. Measuring the benefits from human capital. What should you know about the private returns to education? / Joop Hartog and Hessel Oosterbeek ; The social returns to education / Mikael Lindahl and Erik Canton ; Returns to training / Edwin Leuven ; Human capital and entrepreneurs / Justin van der Sluis and C. Mirjam van Praag ; The effects of education on health / Wim Groot and Henriëtte Maassen van den Brink ; Are successful parents the secret to success? / Erik Plug -- Pt. 2. Applying and extending the human capital model. Overeducation in the labour market / Wim Groot and Henriëtte Maassen van den Brink ; Underinvestment in training? / Randolf Sloof, Joep Sonnemans and Hessel Oosterbeek ; Human capital and risk / Joop Hartog and Simona Maria Bajdechi -- Pt. 3. Policy interventions. Using (quasi-)experiments to evaluate education interventions / Hessel Oosterbeek ; Unemployment duration : policies to prevent human capital depreciation / Bas van der Klaauw ; Can we stimulate teachers to enhance quality? / Ib Waterreus ; Optimal tax and education policies and investments in human capital / Bas Jacobs.