This is an attempt to view the relationships involving education and income as forming a system, and one that can … education varies greatly.  There are three main strands to the paper.  One examines the determinants of enrolment, and finds … that poverty has an adverse effect on both the quality and quantity of education - so contributing to a poverty trap.  The …

aspired to education.  However, with respect to health, we find that people aspire to more rather than less health when …

significantly lower levels of education as adults than their counterparts in less exposed regions. Using the interaction of wind … speed and age at the time of the storm as an instrument, we then find that maternal education is related to the probability … that a child speaks English. Our estimates imply an additional year of education raises the probability that a child speaks …

This paper presents unique evidence that orphanhood matters in the long-run for health and education outcomes, in a …, allowing us to assess permanent health and education impacts of orphanhood. In the analysis, we can control for a wide range of …

This paper looks at the impact of education on household economic welfare in Sri Lanka over twenty years from 1985 to … the incremental value to household welfare shows a distinct jump for an extra year of education at levels where important … national examinations are completed.  Moreover, higher quantiles systematically enjoy greater incremental welfare to education …

This study employs the pseudo-panel approach to estimate returns to education among income earners in Sri Lanka …-2008 for workers born during 1953-1974.  The results show that for males, one extra year of education increases monthly … per cent on average.  It also suggests that males with higher ability seem to be acquiring more years of education …