intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's education because of credit market imperfections …. Parents may underestimate a girl's ability, expect lower returns, and assign lower weights to their welfare ("pure son … rural India, the mechanisms are underestimation of the ability of girls and unfavorable school environment. There is some …

This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital …

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

This paper outlines an extension of the Human Capital Index that addresses the specific challenges in education and … health faced by countries in Europe and Central Asia. Good basic education will not be enough, as job markets today demand … by adding a measure of quality-adjusted years of higher education to the original education component, and it includes …

This paper presents the largest globally comparable panel database of education quality. The database includes 163 …-the countries that have the most to gain from the potential benefits of a high-quality education; (3) the data set contains credible … global progress on education quality, as well as to uncover potential drivers of education quality, growth, and development …

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