Pakistan's education system faces long-standing problems in access, quality, and equal opportunity at every level …: primary and secondary schools, higher education and vocational education. In spite of recent encouraging trends, such as the … rapid spread of private schooling and an expansion of higher education opportunities, systemic reform remains stubbornly …

may promote economic well-being – via beneficial changes in labor productivity, education, and investment, and through …

data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education – but not income or urbanization – is …

Education policy-makers and practitioners want to know which policies and practices can best achieve their goals. But …

Access to education increased enormously in the past century, and higher proportions of people are completing primary …, secondary, or tertiary education than ever before. But efforts to universalize the provision of high-quality schooling face … of Arts and Sciences), leading experts consider the challenges of achieving universal basic and secondary education …

tools of economics to assess the outcome of efforts to solve education's equal opportunity problem in a range of countries … between education and parental income, the problematic past research on peer effects, tracking, the distribution of … suggests that achieving universal primary and secondary education is both urgently needed and feasible. Will the international …

in computing to diverge from boys'; the second section, on higher education, includes a nationwide study of computing … programs and a cross-national comparison of computing education; the final section, on pathways into the IT workforce …

economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible … evidence on which education policy reforms may be able to bring about the simulated improvements in educational outcomes. …

that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the …