impact of women's education on political representation focusing on several European countries. We combine multi-country data … Survey (ESS). We find increased female education significantly raises the percentage of women being elected to regional … parliaments. We then explore possible channels at the individual level and find education increases women's interest in politics …

This review describes the research frontier on human capital and education in economics research. It delineates what is … aims. First, it draws out the implications for key education policy issues, highlighting which policy ideas can be …

We use the PISA student-level achievement database to estimate international education production functions. Student …

background on student performance in two international TIMSS tests. We then show how organizational features of the education …. Using cross-country variations in education policies and their interaction with family background at the student level, we …

Formal education is correlated with entrepreneurial activity and success, but correlation does not indicate causation …. Education and entrepreneurship are both influenced by other related factors. The current study estimates causal effects of … formal education on entrepreneurship outcomes by instrumenting for an individual's years of schooling using cohort mean years …

(lower) secondary education, but without gains in the overall level. This contribution addresses the question of whether this …

This paper looks at the contribution of political leaders to enhance citizens' education and investigate how the … educational attainment of the population is affected while a leader with higher education remains in office. For this purpose, we …

This paper estimates the impact of the Free Education Policy, a major education reform implemented in rural China in … that an additional semester of exposure to the Free Education Policy reduces the intergenerational transmission of parent …