We document substantial variation in the effects of a highly-effective literacy program in northern Uganda. The program … randomized evaluations of developing country education interventions in the literature. This very effective program does indeed …

educational attainment, and adult literacy program participation. Pursuing several alternative identification strategies three … completed primary school, adult literacy program participation is associated with a much lower probability of experiencing a …

between children of rich and poor parents remain as high in Nordic countries as elsewhere in Europe. One explanation for this …

We study the relationship between age and literacy skills using data from the IALS, ALL and PIAAC surveys. In cross …-sectional data there is a negative partial relationship between literacy skills and age that is statistically significant indicating … that literacy declines with age, especially after age 45. However, this relationship could reflect some combination of age …

nature of work and the importance of literacy for social and economic well-being. This article examines the relationship … between age and literacy skills in a sample of OECD countries using three internationally comparable surveys. By pooling the … survey data across time we can separate birth cohort and ageing effects. In doing so we find literacy skills decline with age …

Using the OECD-studies PIAAC and ALL, this paper shows that teachers on average have better literacy and numeracy …

capital ; labor supply ; retirement ; training ; dynamic complementarity ; inequality ; returns to education ; (non …

education on labour force participation and on unemployment can be attributed to literacy and numeracy (the indirect effect) and … suggest that education is a value added process in which skills, including literacy and numeracy, are improved and that these …This paper uses data from the 1996 Australian Survey of Aspects of Literacy to examine the effects on labour market …

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 …

I use the European Community Household Panel to ask whether unemployment affects the relationship between education and … subsequent earnings growth. show that individuals with more education have more to lose in terms of subsequent earnings growth … from the experience of unemployment. This result partially compensates the fact that more education reduces the incidence …