We provide an assessment of the French ZEP (Zones d’Education Prioritaire), a programme started in 1982 that channels additional resources to schools in disadvantaged areas and encourages the development of new teaching projects. Focusing on middle-schools, we first evaluate the impact of the...

"Für den Produktionsstandort Deutschland ist das Humankapital eine der zentralen strategischen Größen. Nur durch qualifizierte Bildung, Aus- und Weiterbildung kann aber Humankapital gebildet und erhalten werden. Auch für den einzelnen ist höchstmögliche und kontinuierliche Qualifizierung...

"Für den Produktionsstandort Deutschland ist das Humankapital eine der zentralen strategischen Größen. Nur durch qualifizierte Bildung, Aus- und Weiterbildung kann aber Humankapital gebildet und erhalten werden. Auch für den einzelnen ist höchstmögliche und kontinuierliche Qualifizierung...

This paper addresses the potential effects on human capital accumulation and economic growth of the alternative compositions of public expenditures in the context of a computable dynamic general equilibrium model of overlapping generations and heterogeneous agents in which altruistic parents...

No country has achieved sustained economic development without investment in education. Thus, education policy can play a vital role in facilitating development. But which types of schooling-secondary or tertiary-should public policy promote? This paper develops an analytical framework to...

Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influence schooling and child labor decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline in...

Consider the following facts. In 1950 the richest ten-percent of countries attained an average of 8.1 years of schooling whereas the poorest ten-percent of countries attained 1.3 years, a 6-fold difference. By 2005, the difference in schooling declined to 2-fold. The fact is that schooling has...

Policy makers and researchers are intrigued with but also frequently frustrated by each other. Although these differences are understandable and predictable, it is clear that research on a variety of educational issues has been both influential and valuable in the development of policy and...