This paper describes the methodology for a new World Bank Human Capital Index (HCI). The HCI combines indicators of … health and education into a measure of the human capital that a child born today can expect to obtain by her 18th birthday …, given the risks of poor education and health that prevail in the country where she lives. The HCI is measured in units of …

This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital … the expected future human capital of children born today, following the methodology of the World Bank Human Capital Index … disaggregated by quintiles of socioeconomic status (SES) for a sample 51 mostly low- and middle-income countries. The index measures …

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 … global progress on education quality, as well as to uncover potential drivers of education quality, growth, and development …

on human health. Air pollution emitted from various activities in the energy supply chains is the main risk factor to … human health, along with accidental and occupational risk exposures. Estimates of premature deaths are over four million per … nexus between the energy supply chain and human health. Yet, the negative implications for human health from energy use …

Students around the world are going to school but are not learning -- an emerging gap in human capital formation. To … percent of the world's population from 2000 to 2017. The data set will be publicly available and updated annually by the World …

at near market rates, on lending for human development sectors (education, health and social protection). Using country …This paper compiles project-level data from the World Bank's lending history to describe patterns and the composition … support. The results are robust to controlling for non-World Bank aid, as well as various alternative specifications and …

traps that result from damages to productive assets, health, and education. The roles of migration and ex-ante behavior are …

main effect. They test the theory using the World Val-ues Survey as a source of proxies for morality. Using their preferred …