Education began to be included as a component of foreign assistance in the early 1960s as it is a principal ingredient … education aid, examines their effectiveness, discusses major problems in implementing educational programmes and suggests ways … to improve aid in education. …

development regimes and it illustrates wider role of education in tackling possible development traps. …

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …

my estimates and to the general vailidy of using a twin-differences design to study the returns to education. …This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with …

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education(i.e. the … effect of entering secondary school as opposed to leaving school after primary education) is positive and amounts to a 4 …