achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary education by the year 2005 in every country of the world. Based on the … findings from a growing empirical literature that suggests that gender equity in education promotes economic growth and reduce …

-authored by Stephan Klasen) aims to solve a micro-macro paradox on the role of education for agricultural productivity. From a …

education and associated years of schooling have expanded substantially in developing countries in recent years. But has this … improvements in the access to the education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within … schooling years. We find great heterogeneity in the distribution of progress of education, with very little pro-poor progress in …

education on per capita economic growth, including cross-country, time series, and sub-national growth regressions. Studies … using male and female education as separate covariates show a larger effect of female than male education on growth, except …-regression analysis for studies that use the female-male ratio of education as explanatory variable. There we find evidence for a positive …