The first essay examines the allocation of education spending. Human capital investment in early childhood can lead to …, government education spending is allocated disproportionately toward late childhood and young adulthood. The consequences of a … education. Taking as given the higher returns to early investment, the modelshows the current allocation may nonetheless be …

This paper provides a meta-analytical review of empirical studies into the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship … conclusions result from this meta-analysis. First, we find that the impact of education on selection into entrepreneurship is … neither positive nor negative. Second, the effect of education on performance is positive and significant. Third, the return …

quantity and the quality of education. We adjust the original schooling data in Borensztein et al. (Journal of International … education quality and suggest that with improved quality of education, it does not take as much quantity of schooling, as … developed host country only when the host country obtains a threshold level of secondary schooling. Borensztein et al. (Journal …

increase the levelof competitiveness. Finally we analyze Serbian agricultural education system and give some instructions for …

In this paper we focus on education as a private decision to invest in ‘human capital’ and the estimation of the rate … regression methods where the estimated return is obtained as the coefficient ona years of education variable in a log wage … returns to the individual is compelling. Despite some of these issues surrounding the estimation of the return to schooling …

enterprises shed redundant workers. This paper focuses on the role of education in determining labor market outcomes in China … of 1999 and spring of 2000, demonstrates that education is a key determinant of labor market outcomes. Educational … attainment is an important and significant factor in the lay-off decision-the more education a worker has the better his/ her …

revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … the education system (by private and public education investments) determines the quality of the human capital stock as … consumption and saving.An efficient tax and transfer system being accompanied by an education system financed in public private …

productivity improvements resulting from increased education and training could exceed those from increased technological adoption …