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 …

market. At the same time, education is a time-consuming process, and enrolment and dropout decisions depend on expected … in finding a job. Standard models of job search and education assume that skills can be upgraded instantaneously (and … mostly in the form of on-the-job training) at a fixed cost. This paper models education as a time-consuming process, a …

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

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 …

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 …