Achieving progress in education is of fundamental importance for human development. Low levels of access to the … education system and in educational outcomes in developing countries are often accompanied by high inequality between countries … education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within countries, and also by gender …

1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women's labor force …'s education, stigmas against educated women engaging in menial work, and falling selectivity of highly educated women. On the …

While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent … of education in the international context is rather a data problem related to the use of enrolment and literacy … Barro-Lee educational attainment dataset, we show that education indeed has a highly significant, positive effect on …

education and associated years of schooling have expanded substantially in developing countries in recent years. But has this … improvements in the access to the education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within … schooling years. We find great heterogeneity in the distribution of progress of education, with very little pro-poor progress in …

1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women's labor force …'s education, stigmas against educated women engaging in menial work, and falling selectivity of highly educated women. On the …

education on per capita economic growth, including cross-country, time series, and sub-national growth regressions. Studies … using male and female education as separate covariates show a larger effect of female than male education on growth, except …-regression analysis for studies that use the female-male ratio of education as explanatory variable. There we find evidence for a positive …

achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary education by the year 2005 in every country of the world. Based on the … findings from a growing empirical literature that suggests that gender equity in education promotes economic growth and reduce …

effect of the policy on educational attainment. With recent data on eight cohorts exposed to free education, we analyze the … likelihood of primary school completion. We find some weak evidence that the likelihood of those who completed primary education …