year later delayed the age of first birth by 0.5 years. Parental education and wealth also had important effects on … additional years of schooling of her mother. Overall, the results provided rigorous evidence for the critical role of education … – both own education and that of parents – in delaying marriage and fertility of young women. …

findings from a growing empirical literature that suggests that gender equity in education promotes economic growth and reduce … achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary education by the year 2005 in every country of the world. Based on the … fertility, child mortality, and undernutrition, we estimate what the costs in terms of growth, and forgone fertility, mortality …

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …

experimental evidence shows that families' misperceptions about the returns to education play a large role in their low investment … levels. This paper builds a model of human capital and growth that incorporates an adaptive learning mechanism to capture the … way agents form perceptions about returns to education. In an economy where human capital investments have both private …

economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible …Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long-run growth performance … across OECD countries. We show that cognitive skills can account for growth differences within the OECD, whereas a range of …

, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …

, education and rigidities are significantly related to TFP growth. The contribution of the interaction between product market …This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities and employment protection … legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECD countries. For countries close to the technological frontier …

externalities (social returns to education) there exists a range of microloan amounts that are growth depressing and welfare … divert investment away from human capital: by failing to internalize the social returns to education, households …’ individually optimal investment decisions in the face of microcredit availability act to depress the growth of the economy and …

This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986 … capital on economic growth. And second, the contribution of immigrants to human capital accumulation tends to dominate the …