We estimate changes in the productivity of schooling for six East Asian countries. Our productivity measure is based on … changes in the relative price of schooling. A rising price of schooling relative to other labor-intensive service sectors … should indicate declining relative schooling productivity. We find that the price of schooling increased by more than the …

Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influence schooling and child labor … experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline in child labor. However, communities that relied heavily on employment in … protected industries before liberalization do not experience as large an increase in schooling or decline in child labor. The …

outcomes for every district in rural India. Every year the core set of questions regarding schooling status and basic learning … levels remains the same. However a set of new questions is added for exploring different dimensions of schooling and learning … tuition, parents’ education, household and village characteristics are retained. In addition, this year ASER tests mothers …

the (in)effectiveness of schooling expenditures and implies that schooling is often provided inefficiently in Europe …. Therefore, we speculate that a reform of the institutions which govern the incentives within European schooling systems may be …

Humankapital gilt gemeinhin als eine wesentliche Determinante von Wachstum und Entwicklung. Der empirischen Forschung …. Klenow und Rodriguez-Clare (1997) sowie Hall und Jones (1999) weisen dem Produktionsfaktor Humankapital für die Erklärung … Basis verbesserter Humankapital-Daten bestritten wird. Weitgehend unbeachtet geblieben ist in der aktuellen empirischen …