measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population … and the corresponding mean years of schooling (representing the quantity of education). In contrast to the existing … elasticity of the stock of human capital with respect to the quality of education is three to four times larger than for the …

on education. Afterwards, I analyze how prioritarians would allocate resources in a dynamic model of skill formation and …

larger presence of Christians have higher literacy rates in 1930, during the Japanese colonial period. We also show that a … higher number of Protestants is associated with higher female literacy, consistent with a stronger emphasis on female … education in Protestant denominations …

show that individuals with temporary disadvantages must exert greater effort to gain access to elite education. This … education can increase expected life-time welfare for disadvantaged students …

received the necessary education to make full use of their talent for the regional economy, especially in the south. However …

The importance of investment in early childhood education (ECE) has been widely documented in the literature. Among the …

This paper studies empirically the effect of education policies on human capital and per capita income. The results … suggest for European and OECD countries that higher attendance at pre-primary education, greater autonomy of schools and … universities, a lower student-to-teacher ratio, higher age of first tracking in secondary education and lower barriers to funding …

the first place. However, it induces the host country to improve its education quality, as a larger share of the generated … benefits accrue in this host country. A higher education quality raises in turn the human capital of the returning students. As …

, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with …