Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) equipment. Using micro-level data, for children aged 17-18 years old, drawn from …

Even the most egalitarian education systems employ high-stakes tests to regulate the transition from universal … secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a … strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving their children's' achievement on these tests, thus reinforcing …

This study examines the impact that over-education has on the earnings of private and public sector workers in Trinidad …

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 … attainment, the relaxation of budget constraints, and increased social contact for children whose parents are less advantaged in …

received less attention is education quality. If technological change that reduces the reliance of production on emissions is … elastic skill supply through better education quality may mitigate adverse economic outcomes, including wage inequality, and … reliance on emissions for production. Having higher quality education-defined as the level of cognitive skills attained by …

-2005. We find that only the HEI graduates obtain a wage premium from skills acquired in the course of formal education. This …