-enhancing investments (technology). Empirically, less developed countries feature higher distortions and larger dispersion in firm …-thirds of cross-country labor productivity differences. Both selection and technology channels are important. Variation in …

"We investigate short and long-term effects of early childhood education using variation created by a unique policy …

paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of …

This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Azerbaijan, using the 2015 Azerbaijan … Monitoring Survey for Social Welfare. The private rate of return to education is 6 percent; this is the first estimate of returns … controlling for selection. In addition, the paper estimates the returns for higher education; for this level, the rate of return …

This paper documents stylized facts on rates of returns to education during economic crises. It shows from three middle …-income countries - Indonesia, Pakistan, and South Africa - that the rate of return to university education (versus secondary 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 …