This paper reviews empirical evidence, especially from Europe, on how education and training policies can be designed … education and schools over vocational and higher education to training and lifelong learning. The available evidence suggests … deliver best results. Designed this way, education and training systems can advance efficiency and equity at the same time …

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. …

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 …

that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the …

Protestant economic history of Becker and Woessmann (2009), where Protestantism first led to better education, which in turn … explanation, where a Protestant work ethic first led to industrialization which then increased the demand for education. …

This paper reviews empirical evidence, especially from Europe, on how education and training policies can be designed … education and schools over vocational and higher education to training and lifelong learning. The available evidence suggests … deliver best results. Designed this way, education and training systems can advance efficiency and equity at the same time. …

computer use for education and communication at home show a positive conditional relationship with student achievement. The …

decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between …