Cover -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Board of Directors -- Acknowledgments -- Map -- Introduction -- PART I -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- PART II -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- PART III -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 --...

Conventional wisdom suggests that the stocks of human capital were one of the few positive legacies from communism. However, if factories under communism were so inefficient, why would the education system not have been? Using the education production function approach and new data on...