sometimes be in its interest to democratize by subsidizing education when the economy is closed, incentives to do so disappear …

losers are those in manufacturing and agriculture and, surprisingly, those who received their formal education after the …

sector rewards formal education more than the public and, in terms of gender, although in 1986 women had greater returns to …

This Paper proposes a theoretical framework that combines the role of education as a cultural melting pot with its … function as an instrument of human capital accumulation. It highlights the important role of public education in promoting … social cohesion: requiring minority parents to pay twice for culturally distinct private education is a powerful incentive …

the two separate margins of primary/secondary and tertiary education. Interestingly, the latter type of schooling proves …

This paper surveys the empirical literature on the growth effects of education and social capital. The main focus is on … clarify where empirical work on education using macro data may be relatively useful. It is argued that on balance, the recent … cross-country evidence points to productivity benefits of education that are at least as large as those identified by labour …