This paper incorporates gender bias against girls in the family, school and labor market in a model of … intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's education because of credit market imperfections … face lower mobility irrespective of location when born to fathers with low schooling, but the gender gap closes when the …

This study seeks to examine gender gaps and disability issues in education in Indonesia, and to suggest policy actions … progress on gender parity in education; however, the national averages mask important variations at the subnational level … drivers of gender differences, as well as issues of social inclusion, and to explore policy approaches to improve learning …

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

In the past decade, hundreds of impact evaluation studies have measured the learning outcomes of education … difficult to communicate to policy makers beyond education specialists. This paper proposes two approaches to demonstrate the … individual earnings and poverty reduction, and that conversion into a non-education metric should help policy makers and non …

-size effects. Ensuring that all incoming teachers have the officially mandated effective years of education, along with increasing …

The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses-the average number of years of …) its virtues of simplicity and transparency make it a good candidate summary measure of education …