sector, which encompasses both health and education. The World Bank's Human Development sector work covers almost the entire … human life cycle, from maternal and neo-natal health, health insurance, early childhood education, school health and … nutrition, basic education, to teacher reform, secondary education and youth skills, higher education, medical and health …

This paper investigates Becker, Hornung and Woessmann's recent claim that education had an important causal effect on … problems, notably the omission of relevant variables which leads to serious bias in the estimated effect of education. When … these problems are corrected, the conclusions of Becker, Hornung and Woessmann no longer hold. Education did not play an …

of education, inequality, and (natural) resources. We highlight two contrasting effects of education and human capital … accumulation. On the one side, education prompts economic growth and enriches the budget of the autocratic elite. On the other side …, education increases the “awareness” of citizens - capturing their reluctance to accept a dictatorship and their labor …

incentives to educate. A key feature of our model is that education acts simultaneously as a signaling device and as a method for …

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 …