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 …

This note provides practical guidance to national governments about key priorities for the education sector following a … major disaster or crisis. It specifies a set of considerations and actions to help ensure that the education sector can: (1 …

development. The 2018 WDR-LEARNING to Realize Education's Promise-is the first ever devoted entirely to education. And the time is … right: education has long been critical to human welfare, but it is even more so in a time of rapid economic and social … promote education. The 2018 WDR explores four main themes: First, education's promise: education is a powerful instrument for …

constructed from multiple rounds of Colombia's Integrated Household Survey (in Spanish Gran Encuesta Integrada de Hogares). The … upward mobility. Furthermore, upward mobility increases with higher education levels and is lower for female …

more complex. Using panel data and instrumental variable techniques, this paper shows that the effect of one such program …, Colombia Mayor, has been to raise the labor force participation of relatively younger male beneficiaries. This increase …

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 …

, this paper proposes a methodology to assess the effect of teacher subject content knowledge on student learning when panel …-size effects. Ensuring that all incoming teachers have the officially mandated effective years of education, along with increasing …

. 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 …

Working with the Mexican Ministry of Education, this study piloted a scalable program to reduce high school dropout …