determinants and gender inequality of educational attainment (test scores in Mathematics and Science). The complicated structure of …

This paper examines the relationship between poverty and education in Uganda in the 1990s. It shows how growth in …-employment and wage employment. The direct productivity effects of education on earnings from each income source are estimated and … found to have increased over time. The role of education in determining access to different sources of income is also …

This paper explores the rates of return to education in Sri Lanka across the sexes and different types of employment … during 2009/10. The endogeneity bias suggests that education may be associated with other characteristics such as ability and … family background - excluding such attributes could lead to biased estimates of the return to education. To deal with this …

The paper examines the role of education in earnings determination by using all three rounds of the Urban Worker …-employed (informal), private and public sector workers. We examine the role education, individual and household characteristics play in … facilitating entry into employment sectors in addition to analysing the pattern of returns to education along the earnings …

economic growth; special attention is given to the studies which investigate gender-separate human capital effects. While there … is a general consensus regarding the role of (gender-neutral) human capital in the growth process - increasing … deal of contradictory evidence regarding the effect of gender-separate human capital on economic growth. For example, in …

This paper investigates gender inequality of academic achievement using mean and quantile decomposition analysis in … eighth grade. There is a mixed picture of gender inequality across the eight countries; the gap favours boys in three …, favours girls in three and there is no average difference in two countries. No particular factors consistently explain gender …