This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Azerbaijan, using the 2015 Azerbaijan … Monitoring Survey for Social Welfare. The private rate of return to education is 6 percent; this is the first estimate of returns … controlling for selection. In addition, the paper estimates the returns for higher education; for this level, the rate of return …

paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of …

. Limited resources mean that policymakers must make tough choices about which investments to make to improve education …. Although hundreds of education interventions have been rigorously evaluated, making comparisons between the results is … for reporting gains from education interventions. The paper applies LAYS to compare the effectiveness (and cost …

This paper documents stylized facts on rates of returns to education during economic crises. It shows from three middle …-income countries - Indonesia, Pakistan, and South Africa - that the rate of return to university education (versus secondary education …

schooling and skills differ between men and women and how those differences relate to gender gaps in earnings across nine middle …