Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs) can play a central role in skill development and higher education …. We also collect administrative, student-level data on higher education and formal employment for SCP students in Brazil …

-size effects. Ensuring that all incoming teachers have the officially mandated effective years of education, along with increasing …

The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses-the average number of years of …) its virtues of simplicity and transparency make it a good candidate summary measure of education …

. Limited resources mean that policymakers must make tough choices about which investments to make to improve education …. Although hundreds of education interventions have been rigorously evaluated, making comparisons between the results is … for reporting gains from education interventions. The paper applies LAYS to compare the effectiveness (and cost …