This paper analyses the role of tertiary education on rural development. Using census data on villages in India for … of the village population with tertiary education raises per capita consumption by around 7.2 per cent. Our results are …

Affirmative action in higher education may lead to mismatch, a situation where students benefiting from preferential …

Human capital models imply that both the distribution of education and returns to education affect earnings inequality …

participants' post-graduation enrolment, employment, and entrepreneurship. The programme was launched in 2011 to increase students …' human capital and interest in science and postgraduate education studies through a substantial increase in scholarships for … increasing approved student enrolment in postgraduate education programmes in Brazil. Even though the programme could have …

This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical … literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …

firms and fully observable in others. In this setting, education serves both to enhance productivity and as a productivity …

returns for different levels of education in an environment that includes labour market discrimination. We are particularly … keen to observe subjective returns to education for different social identity groups, such as gender, religion, and caste …. Despite lower actual returns to education in the labour market, students from Other Backward Castes and Scheduled Castes and …

This paper estimates the returns to education and their implications for wage inequality using data from the 2015 … education across the wage distribution and uses a simulation approach to assess the impact on wage inequality of educational … equalization. The results indicate higher returns to education among women compared with men. The quantile results further reveal …

role of education in creating socioeconomic opportunities, and show how unresolved immigration status detracts from …