This paper analyses pecuniary and non-pecuniary effects of education on poverty. Two are the main contributions: first … our purpose to highlight the non-pecuniary returns to education: resources invested in education bring future returns to …

This paper analyses pecuniary and non-pecuniary effects of education on poverty. Two are the main contributions: first … the non-pecuniary returns to education: resources invested in education bring future returns to individuals, not only …

of policy dialogues. Taiwan has gone beyond most countries in promoting vocational education and setting strict quotas … for schooling. Although the education plans do not have separate targets for men and women, they have gendered outcomes … earnings premium. Policy reforms based on relaxing education quotas and enforcing equal opportunity legislation would provide …

Recent studies have used quantile regression (QR) techniques to estimate the impact of education on the location, scale …

municipalities to estimate the impact of government spending on education and health outcomes. We deal with the multi … of education outcomes, but this is not the case for health, and that spending on non-education programmes are also at … least as important. In addition, there appears to be scope for gains in economies of scale in the provision of education and …