on Colombia finds some evidence that low-quality governance of sub-national governments compromises the internal … Kolumbien zeigen, dass eine niedrige Qualität der Governance kommunaler Regierungen, sich negativ auf die Produktionseffizienz …

indicators and examines the statistical relationship between education finance policies and higher education access among OECD … and empirical findings from Chapters II and III to reframe the discourse of education finance policy and access for China …’s higher education (Chapter IV).Chapter II concludes that scholarships/grants as a percentage of public tertiary expenditure …

relatively unskilled immigrant labor will raise the private return to higher education, while increases in immigrant students … significantly influences the share of high-skilled immigrants acquiring college education in the United States. Despite potential …

-profit organizations, focusing on private, four-year higher education institutions in New England. Different types and sizes of schools … sources for higher education institutions and conclude with some recommendations for ways these schools can weather the …

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 … effect on the earnings of an individual from participation in education. Moreover, the size of the effect seems large …

The question posed in this chapter is: To what extent does current education theory and practice prepare graduates for … current education theory and practice are producing these human capital requirements. The term creative economy can be … creative economy and key to our analysis of education for this economy. Therefore, we follow Potts and Cunningham (2008, p. 18 …

education, namely early education and workplace training. As these two fields are characterized by voluntary educational … policies.This dissertation includes five empirical papers. The first three papers concentrate on early education, with a … and fifth paper provide evidence on workplace training as it is the major source of adult education once schooling is …

We evaluate the contribution of investment on education to Sri Lanka’s economic growth during the period 1959 … uses a framework encompassing both the neoclassical and endogenous growth model. The impact of education is assessed … through a quality adjusted human capital stock measure. The returns to investment in education are positive but significantly …