A literature review suggested that behavioral changes occur more rapidly when the learner assumed responsibility …

Teacher quality is widely believed to be important for education, despite little evidence that teachers' credentials … matter for student achievement. To accurately measure variation in achievement due to teachers' characteristics … large and statistically significant differences among teachers: a one standard deviation increase in teacher quality raises …

Formal education can be improved by transferring responsibility from the teacher to the learner. A simple approach to …

talented young people still hesitate to attend college. This puzzle motivates this paper to test for whether college education … earnings risk from transitory earnings risks. Evidence indicates that investing in a four-year college education is indeed …

the past two decades, the return to college education has increased relative to high school education leading economists … to argue the presence of 'skill biased technological progress'. The literature explaining household savings has also … negative relationship between returns to education and savings rates across most of the past century and also a negative …

not the employment outcomes of those refugees who received financial grants to enable them attend their education … employment than education/ social science and health studies. …

the frequently obtained conclusion that investments in higher education are too low are doubtful. The tests also show the … importance of further education and training, especially on-the-job training. …