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 …

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 …

. 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 …

progress in education. Yet average workers' earnings have stagnated, and earnings of those with higher schooling have fallen …, compressing the earnings distribution and lowering the returns to education. This paper argues that distortions that misallocate … differentials across schooling levels would widen, raising the returns to education. A no-misallocation path is constructed for the …

This paper presents new estimates of the returns to education in the Russian Federation using data from 1994 to 2018 … education are three times greater for higher education compared with vocational education, and the returns to education for … education is a policy priority and there is a need to investigate the labor market relevance of vocational education. Higher …

The pattern of economic rates of return to investments in education can help us to understand the benefits of schooling …. It was common knowledge that the returns to education were highest for the primary level of education and lower for … increased. The returns to higher education have increased the most. The fact that the more educated have improved their position …