Political regimes influence contents of education and criteria used to select and evaluate students. We study the … impact of a socialist education on the likelihood of obtaining a college degree and on several labor market outcomes by … cutoff birth dates for school enrollment that lead to variation in the length of exposure to the socialist education system …

highly educated students for their labour force, they face the additional cost of providing the education. In much of … countries benefit from educating international students. We derive conditions under which international education has a positive … extra growth of 0.049 percentage points. The benefits from international education increase when a country tunes its …

. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled … the past decade, China has made substantial investments in producing it. The egalitarian access to medium skilled …

This paper analyzes the non-market benefits of education and ability. Using a dynamic model of educational choice we … estimate returns to education that account for selection bias and sorting on gains. We investigate a range of non … patterns of returns that depend on the levels of schooling and ability. Unlike the monetary benefits of education, the benefits …

Between 1966 and 1976, China experienced a Cultural Revolution (CR). During this period, the education of around 17 …-scale schooling interruption affected their children's education. We find a strong effect: more interrupted education for parents …, less completed education for their children. On average the CR cohort had 2.9 years interrupted education. If they failed …

sizeable, considering the very low returns to higher education in Italy reported in previous studies …

evidence that the OLS estimates of the effect of ethnic capital on intergenerational transmission of education are biased …