ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on unemployment and the educational system in Tanzania - discusses limited employment opportunities and underemployment of school leavers and university graduates, limited success of educational reforms for self reliance, student attitudes to civic service, the...

ILO pub-WEP pub-PREALC pub. Working paper analyzing trends in public expenditure on rural development, education and health services to satisfy basic needs in Ecuador from 1970 to 1980 - considers the socioeconomic disparities and rural urban disparities in the impact on household income, access...

La investigación educativa muestra una estrecha correlación entre el rendimiento de los estudiantes peruanos y su nivel socioeconómico (NSE). En este documento se usan datos del estudio longitudinal Niños del Milenio para analizar si las oportunidades de aprendizaje (ODA) en matemática de...

This paper analyzes the level and trends in inequality of opportunity among Egyptian children during the 2000s. The analysis uses severall tools, including comparison of the distributions of early risks and outcomes across circumstance groups; estimation of the human opportunity index;...

Rates of return to investments in schooling have been estimated since the late 1950s. In the 60-plus year history of such estimates, there have been several attempts to synthesize the empirical results to ascertain patterns. This paper presents comparable estimates, as well as a database, that...

Female labor participation in the Arab world is low compared with the level of economic development of Arab countries. Beyond anecdotal evidence and cross-country studies, there is little evidence on what could explain this phenomenon. This paper uses the richest set of panel data available for...

A textbook provision program in Sierra Leone demonstrates how volatility in the flow of government-provided learning inputs to schools can induce storage of these inputs by school administrators to smooth future consumption. This process in turn leads to low current utilization of inputs for...

The way the education of serfs children was organized in Russia is still little explored by historians and historians of pedagogy. The reason for that lies in persistent stereotypes held by the society regarding the lack of attention of landed nobility and state to the needs of the population....

Understanding the trade-offs in improving the precision of agricultural measures through survey design is crucial. Yet, standard indicators used to determine program effectiveness may be flawed and at a differential rate for men and women. The authors use a household survey from Mozambique to...