"Do public sector workers earn a wage premium in Djibouti and are the returns to education different across the sectors … sector. Workers in the public sector earn higher private rates of return to education than do private sector workers with …

"This paper examines the differentiated outcomes of vocational and general secondary academic education, particularly … in terms of employment opportunities, labor market earnings, and access to tertiary education in Indonesia. With data … access to tertiary education; rather, it is the lower academic achievement associated with attendance at vocational school …

"In determining whether a country's higher education system should be expanded, it is important for policymakers first … to determine the extent to which high private returns to post-secondary education are an indication of the scarcity of … graduates instead of the high unobserved ability of students who choose to attend post-secondary education. To this end, the …

This book aims to contribute to the World Bank's education agenda by communicating research findings on the impact of … education quality on economic growth. Eric Hanushek and Ludger Wößmann show that indeed the quality of education, rather than … mere access to education, is what impacts economic growth. These world-renowned researchers use data on economic growth and …

to formal education across ages. In the absence of long-term longitudinal data, the paper estimates rates of return for … simulated re-entry into the education system. The estimations use the method of internal rate of return and are based on … observed education-age-earnings profiles from the Colombian national household survey. It finds that rates of return to all …

women, returns are highest at the lowest quantile. The returns to education increased during the past decade. The authors do …

"There has not been much change in the premium to primary education, while the returns to secondary education increased …

Venezuela from instrumental variables based on a supply-side intervention in the education market. These estimates apply to a … education reform (the Organic Law of Education) which provided for nine years of compulsory basic education. They also obtain … alternative estimates using father's education as an instrument, in an attempt to derive high and low estimates of returns to …

"Preliminary evidence suggests that the rates of return to education in Venezuela have been declining since the 1970s …. Patrinos and Sakellariou rigorously estimate the returns to education in Venezuela for the period 1992-2002 and link them to … over time. This paper--a product of the Education Sector Unit, Latin America and the Caribbean Region--is part of a larger …